Autonomous Life is the key element making NAO alive and responsive. To be fully effective, it requires to be combined with Basic Channel and Installed Activities.
To activate or deactivate Autonomous Life, see: Switching Autonomous life on and off.
By default, when you receive your NAO, only the Autonomous Life is installed and turned on:
| Alive, but deaf and dumb: Autonomous Life: ON - Basic Channel: OFF |
On startup:
In all cases, NAO wags slightly, and seems to be waiting for something to happen. But he cannot understand your questions and has no conversation skills. |
We recommend to subscribe to the Basic Channel.
| Alive and responsive: Autonomous Life: ON - Basic Channel: ON |
On startup:
Then, NAO orientates its head towards human, and is able to react to basic stimuli, such as sounds, movements, or tactile contacts.
For further details, see: Interacting with NAO. |
Subscribing to the Basic Channel will install several items on NAO, providing mainly dialog abilities, but also push and fall recovery abilities, and useful sounds gathered in the Aldebaran soundSet.
Subscribing to the Basic Channel is mandatory to fully use Autonomous life, and more specifically, to run Applications using Trigger sentences, or Aldebaran soundSet.
For further details, see:
Additionally, Applications can be installed, from the Store and/or from Choregraphe.
For further details, see: Retrieving applications.
Applications may content Solitary and/or Interactive Activities.
Depending on the launch conditions of these Activities, you see them either autonomously launched at some point, or explicitly launched by voice when you talk to him.
For further details, see: Managing activities.
The more applications you installed on NAO, the richer his living behavior will be.
You may disable Autonomous Life:
| Still and motionless: Autonomous Life: OFF - Basic Channel: OFF |
In this state, you can use NAO as an experimental tool, to test a new program or to study a very specific skill of your robot. But if you want to use or to create interactive Applications, you should create and test them with the recommended settings. |