At a recent Devoxx4Kids event, during the breaks, kids walked up to our NAO and just… started talking to it.
Real conversations. Genuinely funny moments I couldn’t have scripted.
A few months ago I thought our Devoxx4Kids NAO workshops were over. Aldebaran, the French company that built NAO, went bankrupt. No more repairs, no more shipping robots back to Paris. The old Choregraphe workshops, where kids program the robot and it inevitably falls a few times, became too risky.
So I rebuilt a demo Stephan Janssen, James Weaver and I shipped at JavaOne 2016 (NAO + IBM Watson), but this time with a local LLM running on an M4 Max, no cloud calls during a conversation.
The kids did what they always wanted from a humanoid: they had a (fun) conversation.
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