Thanks to Jean-Michel Billaut, you can watch a short - but nice - clip showing Nao in action. Nao, built by French start-up Aldebaran Robotics, will try to compete with advanced domestic humanoid robots from Asia. The Linux-based, Wi-Fi equipped robot will walk, dance, understand voice commands, recognize faces and it will be “teachable by the user”.

I interviewed Bruno Maisonnier, Aldebaran’s CEO, last year, and I’m really happy to see that the project is doing well. Interestingly, he confirms in the video that:

“Limited versions of Nao will be on sale at the end of 2007, with a full commercial launch by early 2008; the expected retail price will be in the EUR2,500-3,000 range.”