Nao robot at CVPR 2010

The exhibition booths at CVPR2010 were lively this year. There were camera product demonstrations (from Tandent Vision Science, Tyzx, and Point Grey Research), and publishers (Now and Springer). At the very end of the hallway, there was a booth from Aldebaran Robotics where they demonstrated their Nao humanoid robot. Meant for research, the robot incorporates a host of vision capabilites with two VGA cameras.

There are also integrated loudspeakers and microphones for voice synthesis and speech recognition. The system weighs 50kg, and is priced at about 12,000 Euros.