INTERSPEECH 2013 14thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Lyon, France August 25-29, 2013

Audition: The Most Important Sense for Humanoid Robots?

Rodolphe Gelin, Gabriele Barbieri

Aldebaran Robotics, France

In this paper, we introduce NAO, the humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics. For this robot, dedicated to be a companion, the interaction with humans is crucial and the audition appears to be a very important sense while the robotic community has been focusing on vision for a long time. Some of the developments on audio are presented.

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Bibliographic reference.  Gelin, Rodolphe / Barbieri, Gabriele (2013): "Audition: the most important sense for humanoid robots?", In INTERSPEECH-2013, 750-751.