This document discusses Aldebaran, a company that creates humanoid robots, and their presence at a game conference to discuss designing robot interactions. Aldebaran was founded in 2005, has sold over 15,000 robots, and employs 400 people across 4 offices. They are joined by former game industry executives to discuss how robots have evolved from research tools in 1960 to personal home assistants today, and how their development requires teams of designers, developers, and specialists in user experience, animation, linguistics, sound, and testing.

1. GAME
DESIGNERS
ROBOTS
NEED
Céline Boudier ‒ Nicolas Rigaud- Aldebaran
#NAOROBOT

2. What is
Aldebaran?
Created in 2005 by B. Maisonnier
Leader in humanoid robotics
4 offices
400 employees
More than 15.000 robots sold

3. Robots at a
Game conf?
Look who joined us:
• Nino Sapina, former executive producer
at Ubisoft
• Joan Da Silva, former creative director at
Rovio

4. Robots evolution
1960 1980 2000
Research
& industry
Professional
services
HumanoidsPersonal
services
2010

5. Robots users evolution
1960 1980 2000 2010

6. From Performance to Experiences

7. NAO
Technical
details
• Recognizes clearly people and objects
• Tracks perfectly using its whole body
• Uses new extractors for people perception
• Talks in an expressive and appropriate way

8. A development
team today
Designers
Developers
UX Designers
Animators
Linguists and Dialoguists
Voice and Sound Designers
Testers

9. Designing
Interactions
• UX Design
• Dialog Creation
• See and Listen Toturial

10. A develoment
platform
NAOqi as an ecosystem:
• NAOqi OS
• Choregraphe
• Aldebaran Application Store
• AppAnalytics

11. Demo
Time
• Hands
on
and
real
life
examples
with
Céline
• We
make
it
easy
to
create
whatever
you
want
DEMO TIME

12. 2015: it’s time to jump in!!!

13. #NAOROBOT
Nicolas RIGAUD
nrigaud@aldebaran.com
@wtfirl
Celine BOUDIER
cboudier@aldebaran.com
@celineboudier