Nao robot with Pharo and LRP

On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:09 AM, Miguel Campusano <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

I've been working on an API for the Nao Robot [1] in Pharo. You can find an early demo of how it works in Pharo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jopUfLWtQ

Moreover, I built a communication bridge between the Nao and LRP [2]. LRP is a live programming language for robotic behaviors. You can see a working demo of the nao moving via LRP here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1jGDtaW41U

I want to emphasize how easy and fun can be to program a robot with a live environment. Looking at the robot and see how immediately changes its behavior whenever you send a command, that is cool!

You can find the API here (I have to write the documentation on how to use it):

http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~mcamp/NaoSocket

This is a work in progress. The Nao has several features that I'm planning to incorporate in the API when they are needed. 

To make this work I use TCP sockets to communicate with the robot. For the Nao, there is a documentation on how the robot communicates via binary packages, but the documentation lacks a lot of information that I managed to figure it out by reading the binary information (thanks gtInspector for that) and understanding how the robot works.

[1] https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/cool-robots/nao

[2] pleiad.cl/lrp