Aldebaran Robotics and Open Source

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Overview of Aldebaran Robotics' use of open source with its NAO humanoid robot, including a live demo of NAO capabilities and how to program it using open-source tools. Covers historical decisions and tooling choices: adopting Linux, moving from OpenEmbedded to Buildbot and Gentoo, switching from CDash to Jenkins. Describes current contributions (example: connman) and tools Aldebaran has open-sourced (example: qiBuild).

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