Nao robot soccer players

 Good news for the robotics hobbyist. Nao humanoid robot made ​​by Bruno Maissonier, founder and CEO of Aldebaran, France, will be open source projects. Source code for programming the robot in the near future may be freely accessible to all people and modified as desired.

Nao is known as a humanoid robot model is quite comprehensive. Since Sony's Aibo robot dog to stop the project some time ago, the robotics community to choose a model Nao. For example in the activities of RoboCup Soccer robot soccer competition that was held on a regular basis.

I have found no details of what parts of what will be open source and will be retained to be proprietary. However, overall, Aldebaran is committed to provide most of the Nao robot source code to the community. However, to be able to tamper with Nao robot certainly still have to buy to Aldebaran. In Indonesia, the distribution of Nao robot conducted via the World Robotic Explorer in the Tower Thamrin. That said, one robot priced at about USD 300 million. source of the article