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Curriculum Structure (10-week module, weekly 3-hour sessions + project) Week 1 — Introduction to NAO and Robotics Fundamentals: hardware, sensors, actuators, capabilities. Week 2 — Setup and Basic Programming: Choregraphe basics; simple behaviors and movement sequences. Week 3 — Python Programming for NAO: SDK, API calls, connecting to robot over network. Week 4 — Perception: Microphone, speech recognition, text-to-speech; simple conversational behaviors. Week 5 — Vision and Sensors: Camera usage, object detection basics; sensor fusion concepts. Week 6 — Autonomy and State Machines: Behavior design, finite state machines for task flow. Week 7 — Human–Robot Interaction (HRI): Social behaviors, safety, ethics, and accessibility. Week 8 — Integration with External Services: Cloud APIs, basic NLP, data logging. Week 9 — Testing, Evaluation, and Iteration: Debugging, performance metrics, user testing. Week 10 — Final Project Presentations: Student teams present deployed NAO applications. ), while "top" can denote a ranking, a