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SoftBank Robotics Europe is now Aldebaran (again)

Its 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had become a fairly ubiquitous presence in resea

Watch these robotic soccer players play a nail-biter of a match

As a hater of all sports, I am particularly excited about the imminent replacement of humans with robots in soccer. If this exciting match, the Standard Platform League (SPL) final of the German Open

Video: Mini Humanoid Nao Recharges Himself Autonomously

And we're yet another step closer to the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/robocalypse/">Robocalypse</a>: mini humanoid <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/nao/">Nao</a> (pronounced "Now"), which wa

Videos: Group Of French Robots Visiting Japan

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/6a00d83451da2069e20134882acb4b970c.jpg" /> A French company exporting robots (of all things) to Japan? Paris-based <a href="http://www.a

Video: The Nao robot tries so very hard to make your life a little easier

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nao.jpg" />Well I'll be: a fancy robot that has nothing to do with Japan. It's called Nao, and it was designed by a French company called