🇯🇵 NAO
SoftBank Robotics / Aldebaran · Japan / France · unveiled 2008
retired
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: high
33.9
XHI Score
Rank #54 of 71
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%75.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%2.5
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%13.5
Hardware & Engineering · 15%45.8
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%35.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%5.0
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the overall XHI. See the full methodology →
Notable
NAO is a small (~58 cm) bipedal programmable humanoid with 25 DOF, the de facto standard platform for robotics education and research, with over 13,000 units in 70+ countries. It is the official robot of the RoboCup Standard Platform League.
Deployments & partners
- education
- research
- healthcare
- human-robot interaction
- RoboCup
Specifications
Height
58.0 cm
Weight
5.5 kg
Payload
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Walking speed
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Runtime
1.5 h
Battery
0.0625 kWh
Total DoF
25
Hand DoF (per hand)
1
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
electric
Onboard compute
Intel Atom E3845 quad-core 1.91 GHz (NAO V6)
AI model
—
Indicative price
$9,000
Company valuation
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