[robocup-legged] New robot in the Standard Platform League

[Javier Ruiz-del-Solar]

Dear Thomas:

Is it somehow possible to have a technical description of the new 
platform? ... Especially about:
- computational hardware capabilities (main CPU & memory)
- operating system and software development tools

Thanks a lot.

Javier



> Dear Teams,
>
> the RoboCup Federation has decided to accept the proposal of Aldebaran
> Robotics (http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com) to provide their humanoid 
> robot
> Nao as successor of the AIBO in the Standard Platform League (the 
> former
> Four-Legged League), at least for two years.
>
> The Four-Legged League is renamed to "Standard Platform League". The 
> main
> property of this league is that all teams the same platform, i.e. 
> there is
> no hardware development. In 2008, there will be two competitions: The 
> AIBO
> competition (for the last time) and the Nao competition. We currently 
> assume
> that there will be 24 teams in both competitions together (e.g. 8 
> teams in
> the Nao league and 16 in the AIBO league).
>
> Aldebaran Robotics will starting the production of the Nao in the 
> beginning
> of 2008. They plan to be able to provide 2 robots to a limited number 
> of
> teams at the end of February 2008 and another 2 at the end of May.
>
> The pricing is currently intended to be:
>
> Single Nao: 4500 Euro + VAT
> RoboCup Package of 4 Naos: 11000 Euro + VAT
> Additional Nao if you already bought the RoboCup package: 3600 Euro + 
> VAT
>
> There will be an official call for participation later. However, for
> planning purposes it would be nice to know how many teams would like to
> participate in the Nao league under these conditions. If more teams are
> interested in participation than Aldebaran Robotics can provide robots 
> for,
> there will be some kind of qualification procedure.
>
> Since the "Four-Legged League" is renamed to "Standard Platform 
> League",
> there now exist a number of aliases for the existing sources of 
> information:
>
> http://www.tzi.de/spl (currently just a forward)
> spl_tech at tzi.de
> spl_orga at tzi.de
> spl_web at tzi.de
>
> The 4legged/legged variants will keep working for quite a while.
>
> Best regards
>
> Thomas Röfer
>
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Universidad de Chile
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