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PR2 and ROS Grow
PR2 from Willow Garage uses ROS (Robot Operating System) and is one amazing robot. First PR2 learned to play pool and fetch beer for the staff at Willow Garage. PR2 is currently listed at $400,000, out of the range of most regular guys like me, but some universities have gotten one and boy, have they [...]
Graspy Learns to Read
Using a PR2 from Willow Garage they named Graspy, students from the University of Pennsylvania, have given Graspy the ability to read short texts. This is actually a difficult task as words can come in a variety of fonts the robot must learn to recognize. The code is open source and can be downloaded from [...]
PR2 Fetches Beer
The good folks at Willow Garage have now modified a PR2 robot to not only fetch beer, but to fetch your choice among four beers and to actually open the bottle for you! Using a custom web application called Beer Me, the user selects their beer of choice, a delivery location and then hits the [...]