I have been playing with some of the face recognition and camera features of Nao over the last few days, and I must confess it has been a lot of fun. Nao has the ability to recognise a human face using it's built in camera and also can take photographs. With the fact Nao is internet connect, we have been able to combine the features to create a little program that lets Nao take pictures of the people he meets and share them on the web.

Basically, when Nao recognises a face he politely asks if he can take a photograph for his website. If the person agrees (just by saying 'yes', voice recognition does the rest) Nao snaps a photograph and uploads it to his website. His website happens to be a page of this website so you can see the half a dozen test pictures we have taken so far here.

We were also quite surprised that he recognised a Gorilla's face and also a face in a photo.

A photo he took when meeting my brother is below: