We've been following the development of Willow Garage's PR2 robot for over a year, and now you can finally plunk down your $400,000 to get a beer serving, pool playing, and outlet finding PR2 of your own.
There's an ongoing effort right now to develop a shared operating system for robots so that engineers and programmers can start making common progress, rather than retracing one anothers' steps. "As a community a lot of us have wasted a...
We told you a bit about the Robot Operating System (or ROS) before when it was helping a 'bot from Willow Garage find power outlets and — after the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Pasedena, California last month...
Willow Garage, a group of 'bot builders who see "personal robots as the next paradigm shifting personal productivity tool for mankind," are working toward that end by developing robots that are unobtrusive and self-maintaining. One such robot is the PR2,...