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The Navel robot - Research edition has a python-SDK. The documentation can be found doc.navelrobotics.com

Looking for details on the Gene.01, the Humanoid guide gives this Summary. No evidence yet, that it can stand up after a fall.
The Generative Bionics website promises Open Libraries, so looking at their github.
From depth-ai, its clear that they use an OAK-D camera.
In human-dynamics-estimation I see a Xsense camera, although this seems to be for the iCub.
Also the Mujoco URDF loader is iCub based.
The development seems to be from iCub, to ergoCub to iRonCub. The ergoCub is teleoperated with iFeel devices.
They also particated in the Avatar X competition, as one of the 17 finalists. They were the winner of the walking humanoids category, but 13th overall.
More on their avatar system in this Science Robotics article (2024). Read the pre-print.
Already the iCub3 has an artificial skin, see An embedded artificial skin for humanoid robots (2008).
The iCub3 is equiped with an Intel Realsense D435i depth camera.
The high-level motion control is described in this paperThe Italian's made a wrapper around ROS, YARP. Also still actively maintained on github, although the connection with ROS seemed to be gone after the move to ROS2. In 2014 it was still tightly connected, according to this paper.
At the AMI-IIT github I only found some simulation software (Gazebo / Matlab based) for the iRonCub.

Pepper was still silent, after our royal visit.
Couldn't switch the mute off in RobotSettings, had to use Choregraphe 2.5.10.7.
Connecting to new access points also failed in RobotSettings, had to use the webinterface.
Forget LAB42, the Diemen-demo will be prepared on the vislab network (favorite).

Seems that I switched off the sound the last time.
Started Choregraphe 2.5.10.7, pepper.local was not visible.
Connected an ethernet cable, pepper.local was visible, but couldn't connect.
RobotSettings showed its ip (169.254.231.30). Couldn't unmute the Pepper in RobotSettings, but could in Choregraraphe (tested with an Animated Say).

Kim Baraka has a recent Puppeteer publication (March 2026). Example code for Nao and Pepper can be found at github.

Should try qicli -s 192.168.1.10 -p 9559 call ALAudioPlayer.playFile "/home/nao/sound.wav" on my local computer.

Pepper is connected to LAB42. Using Robot Settings to connect Pepper to vislab, DNT or ROBOLAB_VAR failed. Is it the 5G band?
First try from the webinterface, next the Nao v5, otherwise try from command-line.
The webinterface worked! Robot Settings is only for NaoQi 2.8

For Social Robotics, the Pepper Social Guidelines (Sept 2017) seems to be very applicable.

The HvA Pepper has NaoQi 2.9, so to work with Choregraphe we should flash this Pepper.
Also the Pepper 1.8 and 1.8A should be compatible with NaoQi 2.5.
The NaoQi image can be downloaded from Matronics.
To program the tablet with NaoQi 2.9, check the QiSDK documentation.

Pepper was connected to DNT_5G, which is a 10.0.0.* network.
Logged in to Pepper, checked the version from /opt/aldebaran/etc/version/naoqi_version, which is 2.5.5.5.

Found Choregraphe 2.5.5 for all three OS on Aldebaran Français. I was always using version 2.5.10 on my nb-dual.
They also point to NaoQi 2.9, but this version is Android based (not Python based), and not compatible with Pepper 1.6 & 1.7.
A way to check the Pepper version is by looking at the serienumber of the robot, see this page
Updated Using Pepper.
Which version of NaoQi is Pepper running?