ADVANCE YOUR STUDENTS INTO THE FUTURE SECONDARY EDUCATION STEP INTO THE FUTURE CLASSROOM Today, NAO is the leading humanoid robot being used in research and education worldwide. Robotics is the fastest growing and most advanced technology used MOTIVATE STUDENTS in education and research. The NAO humanoid robot is the ideal — platform for teaching Science, Technology, and STEM concepts at all levels. IMPROVE LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS By using our NAO robotics platform, instructors and researchers — stay current with major technical and commercial breakthroughs TEACH A JOB-CREATING FIELD in programming and applied research. WHY STUDY A HUMANOID ROBOT? MAJOR INNOVATION MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLATFORM ROBOT & JOB-CREATING FIELD FOR TEACHING & RESEARCH FASCINATION — — — After Computer and Internet, Robotics Computer sciences, mechanics, electronics, Humanoid robots have always fascinated is the new technological revolution. and control are already at the core people especially students with new With ageing population and labor shortage, of the NAO platform. Our curriculum used applications and incredible inventions. humanoid robots will be one of the solutions in conjunction with NAO allows students Now technology has made a huge leap for people assistance thanks to their humanoid to develop a structured approach to finding forward. Stemming from 6 years of research, shape adapted to a world made for humans. solutions and adapting a wide range NAO is one of the most advanced Educate students today using the NAO platform of cross-sectional educational content. humanoid robots ever created. He is fully for opportunities in robotics, engineering, One example is for the instructor to assign programmable, open and autonomous. computer science and technology. students to program NAO to grasp an object In addition, Robotics and STEM education and lift it. The assigned task is immediately is critical in preparing secondary students clear to students. Why might NAO have for higher education. For example, having a problem with the execution of the assigned a foundation in STEM concepts utilizing task? What are the difficulties or obstacles a robotics platform will enable students that NAO is having? Students are naturally to prepare for a future in engineering. motivated to find answers to these questions. ADVANTAGES WORLDWIDE TO USING NAO CUSTOMERS FOR FOR HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS TEACHERS EDUCATION SCHOOLS — — & RESEARCH — — > Hands-on experience by connecting theory > Projects or labs based approach with practice to discover a wide range for teaching Robotics and • University of Harvard • Imperial College, London of fields linked to robotics such as computer Computer Science • MIT • Lycee Louis Le Grand, Paris science, mechanics, electronics or control. > Improvement of achievement • Telecom Paristech • Lycee La Martiniere, Lyon > Inspiring a high level of motivation & learning effectiveness • University of Bremen • High School Central Tech, Erie & interest for engineer careers. For example: > Increasing of female student • Tokyo university • Universitat Bielefeld studying control to grasp objects enrollment and student engagement • Zhejiang University or computing matrix & torso to get NAO moving become exciting projects > Fostering team work, project management, problem solving and communication skills. TACTILE SENSORS • • MICROPHONES INFRARED SENSORS • • HD CAMERAS SPEAKERS • • PREHENSIBLE HANDS • ULTRASONIC SENSORS TACTILE SENSORS • • INERTIAL UNITS FORCE SENSITIVE SENSORS • BUMPERS • — ATOM CPU INTEL INSIDE EMBEDDED SYSTEM — UP TO 25 DEGREES OF FREEDOM — TESTIMONIALS WHAT TEACHERS SAY ABOUT NAO WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT NAO — — One of the things that amazes me most is Nao is used in Education with student It brings a little more fun to studies. the draw that NAO has for students; projects in image understanding […]. It allows us to go beyond theory it draws women and minorities that have The project attracts many students, and to apply our knowledge.” never shown interest in programming and it nicely shows unexpected or robotics to the table. Students are psychological effects, when humans I can see and test directly what I did. asking teachers to teach them math directly interact with humanoid robots Projects we are making become interactive as opposed to just having it forced «in the loop»...” and tangible. Running programs on robot on them by the teacher.” is impressive.” Pr. Axel Pinz I discovered other ways to work than Mike Beiter Graz University of Technology, Austria through computer. I would like to carry High School Computer Science teacher on in this field.” at Central Career and Technical School in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. SOLUTION FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION PRODUCTS NAO T14 NAO T2 TORSO ROBOT TORSO ROBOT — — NAO KEY FEATURES* — > Vision and audio: text to speech, speech recognition, face detection and recognition, object recognition, sound detection and localization... > Sensors: sonars, accelerometers, gyrometers, FSR, MRE, motors., cameras.. > Natural motion reflexes: anti self collision, resource manager, fall manager (NAO protects himself in case of fall), smart NAO H21 & NAO H25 stiffness (power optimization during moves) FINGER KIT ANKLE KITS HUMANOID ROBOT — *NAO H25 RESOURCES NAO-BASED LABS SESSIONS & PROJECTS EXAMPLES PROJECT FOR STUDENTS LABS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE — — EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL* In universities or schools using NAO, At beginner level NAO platform can — students and teachers are developing be used to discover algorithmic or projects such as: how to mimic Boolean logics basics. At an advanced DESIGN DOCUMENTS a student’s body posture, navigate through level, use NAO to teach object oriented, — a maze or create dance animations. embedded or real time programming… SERVICES & ACCESSORIES LABS FOR CONTROL LABS FOR MECHANICS/ELECTRONICS *AVAILABLE IN 2012 — — At beginner level, you can use the At beginner level, you can redesign basic ankle kits to define the control law of mechanical parts using NAO CAD files as a two DOF system. At advanced level, well as work on torque computation or use NAO platform to define complex sensors study. At advanced level, students control mixing vision/motion/audio. can use their math skills to perform matrix computation to work on NAO kinematics… SOFTWARES & SDK CHOREGRAPHE SIMULATOR VISUAL PROGRAMING SOFTWARE 3D PHYSICAL SIMULATOR THANKS TO LIBRARY OF ACTION BOX, YOU CAN CREATE THIS 3D SIMULATOR ENABLES YOU TO PROGRAM NAO BEHAVIORS WITH A SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP OF BOXES! IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AND VALIDATE BEHAVIORS — — Choregraphe enables researchers to program without The 3D simulation engine allows you to test your developments mastering any code and lets students discover the general on a virtual NAO without monopolizing the real NAO. This logic and the key concepts of programming. You can also allows you to study differences between virtual world and introduce programming (C++, Python..) and explore various real environment. You can modify the simulation workspace areas of research in robotics and investigate NAO’s capabilities: by inserting and modifying user defined objects. vision, audio treatment, control, planning, navigation... MONITOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT KIT ACCESS TO NAO’S DATAS DEVELOPER TOOL MONITOR IS A DESKTOP APPLICATION GIVING ACCESS CROSS-PLATFORM/LANGUAGE -WINDOWS, LINUX OR MAC- TO NAO’S SENSORS AND JOINTS DATA C++ , PYTHON, JAVA, MATLAB, .NET, STUDIO, URBI — — You can easily measure and graph all data from NAO’s sensors Our user-friendly and well documented SDK allows you to embed and joints. For example, you can illustrate closed loop control by modules you developed into your robot and use them to create graphing the angle command sent to a joint and the sensor position. elaborate behaviors. The NAO SDK comes with the compilation And, it’s essential to enable students to understand the basics and debugging tools you need. Our SDK is also compatible with concepts used in the various disciplines interlinked with robotics. many robotics development platforms and languages. SHANGHAI OFFICE BOSTON OFFICE PARIS OFFICE ROBOTS FOR A BETTER LIVING Founded in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier, with offices in France, China and the United States, Aldebaran Robotics has the ambitious goal of offer humanoid robots to the general public in the near future. Its first product, the NAO robot, is a 58-cm tall humanoid robot that is already a world-famous star in the Academic and Humanoid Robotics market since 2008. Aldebaran Robotics has provided NAO robots to 450 of the most prestigious universities in the world. Regarding applications, especially for secondary education, we have been focusing our effort on the creation of a STEM Curriculum. In the field of healthcare we are working on applications to autism therapy. We keep in mind the main objective of the company: make a companion robot for general public. That’s why we have launched the NAO Developer Program, a community of programming users who aim to create the robotics applications of tomorrow. We bring together more than 140 people, including 50 engineers and PhDs that are involved in the development and production of the robot. The mission of Aldebaran Robotics is to make robots that improve people’s lives. Discover exclusive testimonials on our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/AldebaranRobotics RobotsLAB US Inc. is an official Distributor of Aldebaran Robotics RobotsLAB US Inc., Suite 1604, 16th floor, 50 California St., San Francisco, California, USA, 94111 www.aldebaran-robotics.comPhone: +1 (415) 439-5367 Fax: +1 (415) 276-9057 EIN: 99-0369415 AMERICAS - [email protected] EUROPE MIDDLE EAST AFRICA - [email protected] ASIA PACIFIC - [email protected].