Re: NAO Robot : is Ada there too ?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:19:53 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:03:19 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
>> We often heard about Lego Mindstorms Robot here, with Ada in the place.  
>> I
>> just saw an advertising on a web site leading to this:
>> http://developer.aldebaran-robotics.com/join/?gclid=CNjagrbsrqkCFYINfAodq1-lJw
>
> 500 MHz / 256 MB look pretty barren for any sort of AI + control + image
> processing [+ voice recognition].
Add to this, 2 GB of flash memory.

Yes, that's not the must, but already more than what's available to the  
Lego Mindstorm.
And there was old experiment with AI and Prolog, oin the 80's, on machines  
with less than that.
The video seems to suggest you to not run numerous applications in the  
mean time anyway.

What's really blocking, is the price : I saw a video on YouTube, someone  
stated a price as hight as $4000. Compare that to the average $250 of the  
Lego Mindstorm. The concept seems still appealing. I could compare some  
video of experiments with Nao on one hand and Mindstorm on another. Seems  
the appearance of the robot influance a lot the kind of experience owners  
attempt. Mindstorm, which more looks like a machine, seems to inspire  
stuff like ware, brutale force animal, industry like automation, and the  
like, while the kind of experiment Nao seems to inspire, looks more  
appealing.

500Mhz without any desktop and web-browser running, also immediately looks  
more (I believe).

Nothing is said about the CPU (or I did not see) : an ARM too ? If that's  
an ARM, GNAT would be already ready for that.

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