NAO humanoid climbing a full spiral staircase autonomously

[@owl9363]

Why are you humiliating it by making it that ugly hat?

[@riemensjesse]

It would take a ton of time to make it up one's houses stairs

[@HumanoidsBonn]

Of course we could have hard-coded it for the first steps completely without sensing (in fact, we did just that in our first stair climbing video). But we wanted a robust and general solution, the staircase could have an arbitrary (and irregular) shape here. Thus, there's a sensing and correction part on every step so that Nao re-positions in the center of the step. Otherwise it's risking a fall after 3 steps already.

[@HumanoidsBonn]

In many of the popular Asimo demonstrations, the robots are acting only semi-autonomously and little sophisticated sensing is involved. Have you ever seen Asimo traverse a complex spiral staircase? Of course Nao is a mechanically simpler design, you're comparing a robot for > 1 Mio $ to one for 15.000$. Here, Nao autonomously corrects for its motion drift (from inaccurate execution) and is able to localize with a high accuracy, despite the comparably low-cost hardware and complex environment.

[@mohitsharma2316]

Inventors never saw the irony calling it NAO that rhymes so much with Now? Master: Come here, Nao! Robo: Yes master. Coming Half an hour later. Master: "I SAID COME HERE, NOW!!" Robo: Yes master. Coming 22 years later.... "Here I Am!! .. ohhh...R.I.P. Master"

[@itsMinuteMaid]

Actually, it took humans millions of years to start walking.

[@Ryuuken24]

I didn't think money at all. Asimo's worth has actually gone way up. For what Nao does, it's pretty good. Hehe. I'm still waiting for robots to have a GPU + CPU. Thanks for making things more clear for me. I do have a question, why doesn't NAO repeat the same action for the first 3 steps, since they are the same, instead of re-reading then proceed to move? Thanks again!

[@HumanoidsBonn]

Of course, but the idea here was to enable the robot to localize without any modification of the environment.

[@mundaJoel]

Wow this was an epic fail for the inventor. Face it, we can never construct complex machinery such as our brains. And for those of u saying we invented computers and so on and so forth, just remember it came from the human brain .

[@Ryuuken24]

Honda did it in 2009, and it can run since 2010. So NAO is hanging behind quite a lot. Didn't Honda also manage to identify objects and people.. Hm, NAO is diffidently behind the future.

[@shampoovta]

Hay some one get that stupid robot off the stairs, I need to use the bathroom! Move slow poke!

[@Fatejodomaster]

2:28 VICTORY!!!

[@MikeDBloke]

Great so when robots try to take over the planet we can out run them on the stairs.

[@steamfox]

At least for now, if Skynet happens, we'll just build lots of staircases to slow them down to a crawl.

[@Walaboro]

So essentially this is what we do, just 12X faster? our brains localize our environment

[@marshy4two]

dammit... now we can't escape the robots by climbing the stairs! we're all doomed

[@alowishus180]

Another way of "trying" to play God..when will we ever learn...smh ):

[@mzarnick]

An it took you a couple of years to start walking, inadequate human.

[@Bauxville]

How to get away from a crazy robot in the future? go up some stairs.

[@carmalcoz]

Would it help some kind of reflective paint on edges of the stairs?

[@HumanoidsBonn]

Agreed, this is still the old (V3) Nao with a 500MHz Geode embedded board. The newest Nao has a 1.6GHz Atom CPU. You can see it in action in our other video "NAO humanoid walking down a ramp autonomously".

[@DecodeAGamer]

I think they were referring to the person, rather than the race.

[@PragmaticProminence]

What it take him half an hour to climb steps lol inadequate robo

[@bcknapp]

Pretty cool, but I think its internals could use an overclock

[@mouseman225]

Lol at the top he puts his hands up like "Yay!" I want one.

[@mechamotollc]

You should make the head attachment look like a Fez hat.

[@trampbuddies2004]

Where did you get him and y does he have a laser head?

[@CrandMackerel]

Good to know that we can outrun this thing....for now.

[@miloesalazar]

By the time, I'd be murdered in my bed upstairs lol.

[@bionicles]

Hey, what's that thing on his head?

[@picatooakal]

So... all it needs is a faster computing process?

[@HumanoidsBonn]

This is a Hokuyo laser range finder, which we use for 3D perception (see "Plane segmentation for climbing stairs" in our other videos).

[@andreaskarlsson1836]

yet they built a mini stair just for him.

[@MiguelRPD]

We have a long way to go

[@tubehound8]

All new bionic joints and I'm good to go

[@IvaanCZ]

I can climb the stairs too, but faster.

[@Gozilla1014]

"Robot can you bring me a sandwich from the freezer downstairs?" "Yes master." 30 min later.... "1 million Dollar wasted. Great"

[@WeldonWen]

Too slow

[@chrismgmail]

1:35 Robot- (looks down)....FUCK!

[@KatDaddy7777]

Killl it !!!!!

[@steamfox]

At least for now, if Skynet happens, we'll just build lots of staircases to slow them down.

[@MakoRuu]

Why does this one have a funny looking head?

[@wodrummerworld]

interesting, congratulations

[@PsychologyRod]

just me or that's scary O.O

[@RineshAndrews]

Well Done ! Best Wishes to your KZbin Channel !

[@HumanoidsBonn]

Thanks!

[@jules2k7]

This is pretty much how I climb the stairs after a few too many beers!

[@carlososor_io]

you mean $16000 ...

[@MrLukeRob]

Technik wird dem leben immer unterlegen bleiben

[@ashmipatel1566]

Very cool!

[@NatanStreppel]

lol @2:29

[@FIESSIESI]

fascinating! keep doing what you are doing, guys!!!!!

[@martylynchian8628]

How is this any different than robosapian?

[@AiLoveMusic]

The way it looks around before every step is adorable

[@BaggioVL15]

а самое обидное, что пиво нагреется((

[@hayleehooper3855]

This movie could be better but it still some how rocks!

[@shuktijkatta2748]

sir any research paper or github repository

[@HumanoidsBonn]

The research paper for this video can be found here: www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/papers/osswald12iros.pdf

[@alexhexagon1670]

why the head look like megaman head?

[@kalebbruwer]

How steep stairs can it climb?

[@lenkapastororova862]

ugly NAO robot 😔

[@EliullGameplays]

xD my Grandma ist faster

[@sosa2413]

Fascinating (:

[@IExSet]

This is crappy scripted cheating. Toy situation.

[@ithinkmynameismoo5e]

"ELEVATE"

[@asteriondaedalus6859]

Attached link is dead!

[@HumanoidsBonn]

+Asterion Daedalus Thanks for reporting, we fixed the link.