Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the code release of Open Access NAO (OAN): a ROS2-based software framework for HRI applications with the NAO robot.

Github: https://github.com/antbono/OAN Demonstration video: https://youtu.be/LxboNtHfDJg?si=fg9sl_HBgyTdWeC-

Starting from the ability to run ROS2 on board the robot, we developed an open-source framework for the sixth version of NAO that is independent of the manufacturer's APIs.

In addition to the basic skills of a humanoid robot such as walking or performing gestures, OAN provides NAO with:

- Speech recognition/synthesis via Google Cloud Platform. - Face and object recognition via YOLOv8. - Use of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model for conversation thanks to ChatGPT.

The developed code is therefore configured as a ready-to-use but also highly expandable and improvable tool thanks to the possibilities provided by the ROS community.

All the necessary software is open-source or publicly available.

For questions, please contact a**********o@unical.it

*Antonio Bono*, Ph.D. Research Fellow Department of Computer Science, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering (DIMES) University of Calabria

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