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Dreamer From Meka Robotics
Meka Robotics has created a robot called Dreamer that uses Willow Garage’s ROS or Robot Operating System. The robot has no mouth, some very expressive ears as well as some cute eyes containing FireWire cameras. The idea here is to create a humanoid robot that is able to be used around humans. The robot’s arm [...]
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 [...]
TurtleBot From Willow Garage
Willow Garage, famous for the PR2, a pancake flipping robot, have recently introduced TurtleBot. Now your very own snack serving robot can be yours. TurtleBot is an affordable home robot kit and you can choose from 2 models. If you already have an iRobot Create and a laptop, you can purchase the TurtleBot Core kit [...]
Controlling A Robot With Kinect
Willow Garage is holding a contest for it’s ROS (Robot Operating System). See all the details at ROS Contest. The entry shown above by Taylor Veltrop uses a Microsoft Kinect to map his body movements to the robot. This is pretty cool stuff. Right now, only the arms are being mapped, but Taylor has plans [...]
PR2 Makes Pancakes
Last year we saw an Italian team teach a robot how to flip pancakes. Now we have PR2 and Rosie from Willow Garage making pancakes. We know the video is a little long and slow, but here are some things we like about it. PR2 uses the internet to look up a pancake recipe. PR2 [...]