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Subject: Re: NAO Robot : is Ada there too ?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:55:04 +0200
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Le Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:19:53 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:03:19 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57) wro=
te:
>
>> We often heard about Lego Mindstorms Robot here, with Ada in the plac=
e.  =

>> I
>> just saw an advertising on a web site leading to this:
>> http://developer.aldebaran-robotics.com/join/?gclid=3DCNjagrbsrqkCFYI=
NfAodq1-lJw
>
> 500 MHz / 256 MB look pretty barren for any sort of AI + control + ima=
ge
> 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 machin=
es  =

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 th=
e  =

Lego Mindstorm. The concept seems still appealing. I could compare some =
 =

video of experiments with Nao on one hand and Mindstorm on another. Seem=
s  =

the appearance of the robot influance a lot the kind of experience owner=
s  =

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 loo=
ks  =

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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