🔬 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
LOCOMOTION
Open access
SPRINT: Efficient Spectral Priors for Humanoid Athletic Sprints
Yantong Wei, Kaihong Huang, Hainan Pan +6 more
2026
HRI
Open access
Robo-Blocks: Generative Scaffolding in End-User Design and Programming of Social Robots
Arissa J. Sato, Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White +4 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
HumanoidMimicGen: Data Generation for Loco-Manipulation via Whole-Body Planning
Kevin Lin, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Reed Garrett +7 more
2026