NAO Robot’s Autonomous Reading and Interaction with Printed Texts
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Abstract
Reading is a fundamental human skill that influences language development and social interaction. In robotics, while computer vision enables text recognition, current systems rarely extend to real-time interaction with physical text. This study bridges that gap by developing a system where, for the first time, the NAO humanoid robot autonomously reads, pronounces, and manipulates pages of printed books within a controlled environment. A robust image processing pipeline was designed, incorporating pre-processing steps to reduce noise and leveraging the Tesseract OCR engine for character recognition. The system achieved a recognition accuracy of $98.96 \%$ even with lowresolution images and demonstrated efficient page manipulation. Performance evaluation highlighted differences in processing speed between a personal computer and the Raspberry Pi3, with the latter exhibiting reduced speed due to hardware limitations even while using low computational resources algorithms. These findings underscore the potential of humanoid robots in real-time applications, particularly in education and interactive learning environments, as well as highlighting some limitations.
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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