Getting started with the Nao robot

Owned by Ligthart, M.E.U. (Mike)
Last updated: Oct 25, 2024 by Karen Chiang
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This guide assumes you already followed the steps here Getting started.

For example, to show the camera feed of the robot:

In the demo_nao_camera.py make sure to adjust the ip adress to the ip adress of your robot. If you press the chest button of the robot it will tell you it’s ip adress. Ensure you are on the same network as the robot, and then you are good to go!

To start the camera demo from the terminal, use the following commands.Note: it might take some time to start the demo file if the SIC has never been installed on the robot.

Ubuntu / Debian / macOS
# Activate the same virtual environment where you pip installed # social-interaction-cloud in the installation steps source venv_sic/bin/activate # Go to sic_applications and the demo script cd sic_applications/demos python demo_nao_camera.py
Windows
# Activate the same virtual environment where you pip installed # social-interaction-cloud in the installation steps .\.venv_sic\Scripts\activate # Go to sic_applications and the demo script cd sic_applications\demos python demo_nao_camera.py

And, you should get the following output:

Starting SIC on /data/home/nao/.venv_sic/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sic_framework/devices/nao with redis ip 192.168.2.6 [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiSpeakerComponent [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiButtonSensor [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiAutonomousActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiMicrophoneSensor [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiMotionActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiBottomCameraSensor [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiStiffnessActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiMotionRecorderActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiTextToSpeechActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiTrackerActuator [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiTopCameraSensor [SICComponentManager 192.168.2.7]: INFO: - NaoqiLookAtComponent

If all goes well, a display should pop up showing you the camera output of your robot!

API

The goal of SIC is to provide easy to use high level access to devices and services. For example, to make a NAO robot say something, run the following python script on your laptop! To see more functionality check out the sic_applications /demos folder!