🔬 Corporate#96 Paris, France· Est. 2005
Aldebaran — Social Robot Pioneers
Creator of NAO — the world's most used humanoid research robot in universities globally — and Romeo service robot. Aldebaran (now part of SoftBank) democratized humanoid robotics for research.
social robotshumanoideducation robotsNAORomeo
Notable achievements
NAO (10,000+ units in 80+ countries), Romeo humanoid, Pepper co-development, 3,500+ published papers using NAO, robotics education pioneer.
Notable work
NAORomeoPepper (co-dev)
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
LOCOMOTION
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MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
OmniCalib: Target-Free, Task-Structured Self-Calibration for Humanoid Robots
Kaixiang Lu, Haiyu Lan, Chunxiao Qiao +6 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
Gated Residual Body-Hand Coordination for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation
Ruiming Wu, Shuang Li, Liding Zhang +2 more
2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
PASSAGE: Scaling Scene-Aligned Motion Learning for Perceptive Humanoid Traversal in Cluttered Environments
Yuxuan Ma, Zicheng Zeng, Chunlin Peng +17 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
WholeBodyWAM: Learning Whole-Body World Action Models with Scalable Motion Priors
Bowei Zhang, Qiyao Zhang, Shuanghao Bai +8 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination
Zhuo Li, Yiming Yao, Jim Tan +3 more
2026