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Aldebaran

📍 Paris, FranceFounded 2005👥 100-200 employees🔒 Private
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About

Aldebaran is a French humanoid robotics company best known for creating the NAO and Pepper humanoid robots, which have been widely adopted in education, research, and customer-facing service roles. Originally founded as Aldebaran Robotics and acquired by SoftBank Group in 2012, the company was later sold to Japan's United Robotics Group in 2022. It remains a recognized pioneer in social and companion robotics, with NAO still a standard platform in university research and STEM programs.

Key Products

NAOPepperRomeoChoregraphe