SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.5?

What’s new - 1.12.3

NAO firmware

After a few weeks of life, NAO V4 needed to be settled, adjusted.

  • Thermal model has been updated, in order to safely allow him to go further before saying “Motor hot”.
  • Current limits of the motors have been pushed forward, so NAO V4 should be strong enough for the most difficult poses.
  • Head Fan temperature/speed settings have been also updated in order to minimize unnecessary noise.
  • WiFi transmission from the robot highly improved.

So don’t forget to update your robot: Updating robot system.

Choregraphe

Improved boxes

Walk to and Walk Toward boxes take less time to stop: in order to make NAO react more quickly, Walk to and Walk Toward boxes now use ALMotion stopWalk() to stop.

Stand up box has been fixed, its behavior is again symmetric.

Installation on a multi user computer

License key activation on a multi user computer is now implemented for Choregraphe Suite.

So before installing, make sure you are logged as Administrator.

For further details, see Choregraphe suite - Installation Guide.

Temporary directories cleaning

In version 1.12.0 and previous ones, Choregraphe could have created temporary directories in a wrong path where the Windows Cleaning disk command has not access.

This issue is now fixed.

To know how to clean manually these temporary files, see Windows only - Choregraphe temporary directories.

NAOsim

Installation on a multi user computer

License key activation on a multi user computer is now implemented for NAOsim.

So before installing, make sure you are logged as Administrator.

License activation for non connected computers

NAOsim Activator allows you to activate NAOsim License even if your computer has no Internet connection.

Supported Operating systems

OS X Lion supported

Mac OS X 10.7.1 (Lion) is now supported.

For further details, see Choregraphe requirements, C++ SDK - Installation Guide, Python SDK - Installation Guide.

New 64-bit packages available

We are moving to full support 64-bit.

Here is the list of new packages, already available even if still under validation:

  • choregraphe-suite-1.12.1.10-linux64.tar.gz
  • choregraphe-suite-1.12.1.10-mac64.dmg
  • naoqi-sdk-1.12.1.10-linux64.tar.gz
  • naoqi-sdk-1.12.1.10-mac64.tar.gz
  • pynaoqi-python2.6-linux64
  • pynaoqi-python2.7-linux64

C++ SDK

Read the qiBuild release notes.