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23 pointsColinWright11 comments

The NAO is nice, but rather pricey. You can do advanced robotics stuff without breaking the bank using a Turtlebot. And it's open hardware and software.

http://www.turtlebot.com

In some regards the Turtlebot is more advanced, since you can do SLAM and also carry stuff around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36xkUILtQE

The robot looks really awesome but the price looks to be about $16,000.

I was thinking about this - when such humanoid robots get to the point where they are truly useful, wouldn't it be reasonable to shell out about as much as we would for a car?

I think it would be worth at least that, probably more. But that time is not now.

Right, but $16,000+ is still a reasonable amount to pay when you consider the target market - researchers, educational institutions, museums, etc. It's not quite within reach of your average joe just yet, but this is a step up from what it costs to get an Asimo...

In the Engadget video, they say that for developers it's $4000. If that's still true, they should probably advertise it better on the site.

Why don't they give out the simulator? Less inducement to pay $16K I guess, but, certainly it'd boost mindshare, and give a wider audience a chance to shine, feeding back to Aldebaran.

I agree. It would be a fun project to write an open source one though :)

For what it can do $4000 actually isn't a horrible price. Turtle bot is cool too, but I think it's actually useful that its humanoid and seems to have character.

Are there any open source humanoid robots out there that people can recommend?

This is terrible.. cause now i really really want a robot..

It is the robot that just aired in a Brazilian telenovela, Morde & Assopra

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&q=morde+...

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