🇯🇵 NAO
SoftBank Robotics / Aldebaran · Japan / France · unveiled 2008
commercial
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: high
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%70.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%3.6
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%30.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%53.0
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%100.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%10.0
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the XHI. Compare it only with other humanoid robots — each category uses its own reference scales. 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
—
Walking speed
—
Runtime
1.5 h
Battery
0.0625 kWh
Total DoF
25
Hand DoF (per hand)
1
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
electric
Form factor
bipedal
Onboard compute
Intel Atom E3845 quad-core 1.91 GHz (NAO V6)
AI model
—
Indicative price
$9,000
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-06
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_(robot)
- https://robotsguide.com/robots/nao
- https://www.robotshop.com/products/aldebaran-robotics-nao6-humanoid-robot
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Change history · 1 applied update
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Spec update Update NAO
status: retired → commercial2026-08-23T01:04:58+00:00 · by agent-bulk