Using Java for robotics with Aldebaran's humanoid robot NAO

Aldebaran Robotics is the world leader in humanoid robotics. Early 2012 the company released the latest version of the NAO robot – NAO Next Gen.

NAO is a state-of-the-art humanoid robot with 25 degrees of freedom. It comes with a complete software suite and SDK to help users programming and interacting with the robot.

In this session, after introducing NAOqi (the programming framework used to program NAO), we will talk about the various ways you can program in java for NAO.

* Choregraphe: a simple, grapical way to edit movements and write behaviors

* Using the Java SDK : how to access use NAOqi from Java.

Author:
Dimitri Merejkowsky
After 3 years in an engineering school in France, Dimitri arrived at Aldebaran Robotics for his final internship.
During 3 mouths, he worked with Python and C++ to implement an emerging walk algorithm with genetic algorithms and neural networks.
At the end, he was hired, and since then he moved from A.I. to lower level tools.
He’s now in charge of the continuous integration, and the releases of the various SDKs (C++, Python, Java) produced by Aldebaran.
He also works on qibuild, a generic build system from C++, with lots of ideas borrowed from Maven :)
He’s currently working on a proper Android SDK for NAO. (Making Android applications for NAO is possible but a bit tedious right now ...)