First Round of Developed Stages
   • AriGato Robotics: Initial Behavior De...  

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The NAO robot, developed by SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics), is an autonomous and fully programmable humanoid robot that is capable of interacting with humans by means of verbal and physical communication. Its potential capabilities can also extend to performing strenuous physical movements, i.e., dancing, and accessing the Internet through HTTP requests to provide advanced, “onthefly” information. This robot was used in AriGato Robotics Team’s 20182019 Computer Science Capstone Project, where they were tasked with developing new programs for the NAO robot. These new programs were to be different and vastly more exciting than the robot’s default behaviors; the programs, also known as modules, improve the user experience when interacting with NAO and make the overall interaction experience much more memorable and interesting. Users can trigger NAO’s various modules with verbal commands and/or questions to execute activities such as pushups, guessing the user’s age using facial analysis, and providing information about movies. Other behaviors include activities such as dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies”, recommending an outfit based upon the weather of NAO’s current location, talking about Central’s offered Computer Science courses, and more! Given the growing abundance of robots and artificial intelligence in today’s society, the NAO robot project bridges embedded systems and the software development lifecycle to better understand how users may interact and benefit from robotics technology.

GitHub for Capstone: https://github.com/haileydhanens/CWU_...

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Note: Thanks for tuning in and congratulations if you've read this far. I'm trying to get to questions as quickly as possible and I won't be making any coding tutorial videos in the foreseeable future; I've linked the Git repo for any of you curious developers who wanna take a crack at it. I'm going to focus my channel on hobbies I've started.

EDIT 12/19: Please reconsider what you're going to comment before you say something along the lines of, "That's so expensive, who would want that?!" The NAO robot is a learning aid used to bridge programming and robotics for those who are interested in learning how to work on mechatronics. A ~$9000 robot may be used for entertainment, however, these robots were purchased BY Central Washington University FOR the students to learn.