Aldebaran Robotics

Aldebaran Robotics' diminutive NAO robot recently completed an internship at the Mitsubishi UFJ bank in central Tokyo. Working in customer service, the robot helped many customers with any queries they had in Chinese and English, as well as Japanese.

As far as consumer humanoid robots go, Aldebaran Robotics' NAO is certainly one of the more capable. Now, the li'l bot can also drive a car – if that car is its new miniature electric BMW Z4.

Jointly developed by SoftBank Mobile and Aldebaran Robotics SAS, the semi-humanoid robot Pepper is designed to gauge human emotions and alter its behavior accordingly as a way to better fit into family life.

Intel's Futurist and Director of Future Casting, Brian David Johnson, was at this week's Maker Faire in New York City to introduce an open source, 3D printed companion robot called Jimmie.

Aldebaran Robotics has presented an upgraded version of its cute little NAO humanoid robot.

Gizmag meets the humanoid robots of the Robotville exhibition.

Versatile humanoid robot Nao can see (via two cameras), speak, react to touch, surf the web using WiFi, and interact with other Naos.