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Nao Robot

Nao Robot

Management Team - Corporate - Aldebaran Robotics | Company Bruno Maisonnier - CEO CEO of several financial companies in different countries and Multicultural IT projects manager. He has been following the robotics market and its evolution for 25 years. Jérôme Monceaux, Chief Creative Officer Jérôme has 11 years of experience in Software architecture, specifically in humanoid robotics. Bastien Parent – Marketing Director Holds an IAA diploma from the ESP, Paris. Jean-Christophe Baillie, Chief Science Officer, Director of the A-Labs Jean-Christophe Baillie founded and directed the Cognitive Robotics Lab at ENSTA/ParisTech. Alec Lafourcade-Jumenbo, Chief Technology Officer Thirteen years of experience in new technology at Sagem, during which he held R&D and Marketing positions as well as international program management in Telecommunications. Valérie Jabot, Chief Financial Officer Valérie has a 20-year experience in Finance in major international companies - pharmaceuticals, services and industries. QingYi Le Lay - VP Sales Asia Pacific

Take tips from the arts to make robots come alive - tech - 20 January 2012 LIKE PCs, robots may soon become a key part of our everyday lives, but they present unique communication challenges that PCs do not. So roboticists are turning to people who have already solved many of these problems - actors, animators and dancers. Here, New Scientist brings you some of the artistic know-how that has proved useful. MASKED THEATRE The 50-centimetre-tall, white plastic Nao humanoid (see photo) looks adorable. CARTOONS Humans can often guess what another human is about to do. Similarly, animated PR2s that appeared to react to the task's outcome - a 30-year-old tip from Disney animators - rather than just standing there dumbly, were viewed as more intelligent and capable, irrespective of whether they actually completed the task. DANCE Humans naturally move in subtly different ways depending on their emotions and intentions, but unravelling how we do this in order to program it into a robot is tricky. Software: The next robot revolution More From New Scientist Recommended by

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