Aldebaran Nao open source (partially) its code

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(Almost) Great news from Aldebaran Nao

Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Code of Nao Robot (pdf)

Five years of development in embedded software for humanoid robots shared with fellow researchers and developers.

(May 13, 2011 – ICRA Shanghai, China) ALDEBARAN Robotics, the world-leading European humanoid robotics company announced at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation its decision to share a significant part of its source code with the research and developer community by the end of 2011.

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This sounds like a response to the fact that the DARwIn-OP is both open hardware and software!

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Aneasy view of the software that is being "opened" (the openNAO, of course):