Aldebaran Romeo

Romeo was a full-size assistive humanoid project led by Aldebaran Robotics. It began in 2009 and was intended to research how a robot could assist older or disabled people at home through speech, gestures, navigation and basic object handling. The official project history says the first project phase ran from 2009 to 2012 and produced a large humanoid prototype, followed by the ROMEO2 research program in 2013.

The project describes Romeo as 140 cm tall. Aldebaran representatives told IEEE Spectrum that the planned platform weighed 40 kg and had 37 degrees of freedom, including articulated eyes, feet and a multi-joint backbone. Each four-finger hand had one coupled degree of freedom, while backdrivable electric actuators were intended to make limb interaction safer.

Physical Romeo units were used as research platforms, including at TU Wien for courses and student projects. The robot never progressed to general sale, and it is absent from the current NAO-focused product line after Aldebaran's 2025 liquidation. The entry is therefore marked discontinued rather than an active prototype.