The people at Willow Garage have reached a new milestone last Tuesday morning when they completed shipping out their eleven PR2 Robots for their Beta Program. Now the PR2 is out in the wild and we are looking forward to see what awesome tasks it will perform (besides folding towels and playing pool…
The PR2 robot by Willow Garage, which has been covered in several articles, has decided to start playing pool. And, it works rather brilliantly as you can see in the video below. Its small advantage compared to a human player is to be able to visualize balls and the best trajectories to follow …
Willow Garage celebrated its PR2 launch event in style. Not one but a good dozen PR2s were there to dance to the rhythm of the music. What's more, the robots paraded holding the hand of their partner...human partner: -) A great moment for Open Source robotics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGv…
Willow Garage, whose progress we cover on this blog, just announced the eleven recipients of its PR2 robot. The PR2 robot is an open source robot which is characterized by a hardware platform (Personal Robot 2) with an ROS (Robot Operating System) open source software application. Willow Garage …
We've already introduced you to PR2 in the past, the open-source robotic platform by Willow Garage. Recently we saw that the PR2 was able to autocalibrate on its own. Well, now it can also fold the laundry! The PR2 faced the test of folding 50 towels and succeeded with 100%. For now it only fold…
