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Softbank Robotics (SBR) collaborators share their vision about robotics, AI, Machine Learning or creative content and animation among others hot technological and scientific topics.

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Developer Center v1.1 Release note

Developer Center v1.1 Release note
2019/11/06
Developer Center v1.1 Release note
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CARESSES: smart and friendly robots for the elderly

CARESSES: smart and friendly robots for the elderly
An international partnership where SBRE puts forward Pepper to answer user specific needs - How can technology support the worldwide issue of the ageing populations and the complexity of human connections? SBRE committed into the CARESSES program to integrate a system that plans the robot's actions according to a relevant cultural knowledge base.
2019/05/17
Pepper closeup
Pepper (NAOqi 2.5)
CARESSES: smart and friendly robots for the elderly
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Developer Center v1 Release note ("Opening Night")

Developer Center v1 Release note ("Opening Night")
We previously released a preview of the Developer Center website (“Early birds”) in April and we release its first public version (“Opening Night”) on May the 16h. We do thank you for your reactions and feedback which was taken into account and helps us improve the developer experience.
2019/05/17
Pepper closeup
Pepper QiSDK
Pepper closeup
Pepper (NAOqi 2.5)
NAO closeup
NAO⁶
Developer Center v1 Release note ("Opening Night")
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Developer Center v0 Release note ("Early birds")

Developer Center v0 Release note ("Early birds")
A website dedicated to developers of robot applications for Pepper and NAO - Developer Center is eventually released on prod with a batch of minimum valuable features.
2019/03/12
Pepper closeup
Pepper QiSDK
Developer Center v0 Release note ("Early birds")
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The Lottie animation tool

The Lottie animation tool
Experimenting the flexible and efficient Android library on Pepper’s tablet - Light and flexible, Lottie is a popular mobile library to make 2D animations on Android devices such as Pepper’s tablet. Indeed, Pepper is not just a voice user interface, but the tablet animations are very helpful in improving the interactive efficiency of the robot. At SoftBank Robotics we already tried out Lottie and there is what we found.
2019/03/12
Pepper closeup
Pepper QiSDK
Pepper closeup
Pepper (NAOqi 2.5)
The Lottie animation tool