He drew a crowd where he went at JavaOne. And only being 22.5 inches/573 mm tall, that's pretty impressive.

Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company. Over 200 academic institutions worldwide have made use of the robot. In this video from JavaOne, Nicolas Rigaud shows off the NAO robot which you can control with Java. We are eager to see what Java developers can do with a robot that can walk, talk, see, hear, and dance.

You can see several pictures in the blog Aldebaran Robotics at JavaOne. Learn more about the Aldebaran robotics developer program.