We are happy to announce that the PR2 from Willow Garage has a very good friend, the Kawada HRP2-JSK. Since robots do not have emotions (yet) or know the concept of friendship (yet), by "fiends" we mean that they can use the same open source code to perform the same tasks. This might not seem…
As a follow up of our recent Beer-Fetching post, we are happy to report that the PR2 is making a remarkable progress in this area. The people at Willow Garage have been busy (and thirsty) programming the PR2 so it can fetch beer as dictated trough a web interface by their human masters. The projec…
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…
