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In the course, you will work closely with a NAO robot. Even though they might look cute and robust, it is important to notice that those robots are very expensive (about 7,000 EUR each!) and very sensitive. Hence, there are certain rules you need to follow when working with the robot.

Before working with a NAO robot, watch the videos provided by the Softbank on how and work with a NAO robot. The videos are provided via the following link:

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1. Connect to the same WiFi network as the NAO Robot

   • (see this page, if you need to change the network of the NAO robot).

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder in which you cloned the docker repo (see here for further info). Open the ‘sic-local’ folder. Run the robot-installer.jar file by either double-clicking on it, launching run-robot-installer.bat (Windows) or run-robot-installer.sh (Linux/Mac).

   • Java 8 or later is required to be installed on your machine

3. Fill in the required fields in the pop-up box and then press “OK”

   • username: “nao”; password: “nao”, corresponding to the robot

   • You can inspect the log output of the various processes running on the robot using the different action tabs.

4. When done, click “Disconnect” (always do this to prevent lingering processes).

A NAO robot is composed of multiple so-called SIC devices. These will be topic of the next page.One physical robot is composed out of multiple ‘SIC devices’. On a Pepper for example, the robot installer automatically launches a microphone, speaker, robot body, camera and browser device. Their identifier is generated based on the robot’s MAC address, and should thus always be unique and consistent.