🔬 Corporate#96 Paris, France· Est. 2005
Aldebaran — Social Robot Pioneers
Creator of NAO — the world's most used humanoid research robot in universities globally — and Romeo service robot. Aldebaran (now part of SoftBank) democratized humanoid robotics for research.
social robotshumanoideducation robotsNAORomeo
Notable achievements
NAO (10,000+ units in 80+ countries), Romeo humanoid, Pepper co-development, 3,500+ published papers using NAO, robotics education pioneer.
Notable work
NAORomeoPepper (co-dev)
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
LOCOMOTION
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MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control
Xinyao Li, Xialin He, Runpei Dong +1 more
2026
HRI
Open access
Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
2026
HRI
Social robots' verbal time updates facilitate children's persistence in challenging tasks: A comparison with humans.
Ishikawa M, Matsumura S, Mahzoon H +2 more
Child development · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments
Xiaopeng Lin, Ruoqi Yang, Shijie Lian +14 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes
Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen +9 more
2026