PR2

Nat Geo’s Robots 3D proves that robots don’t need to be sci-fi to be compelling

Adriana Hamacher 16 Jul 2015

Close up, in 3D, what jumps out at you is not just how astonishing today’s humanoid robots are, but also how miraculous the human body they mimic is. National Geographic’s Robots 3D is showing in ...

Human insights inspire solutions for household robots

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 05 Feb 2015

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...

Beaming-in to RoboBusiness 2013

Frank Tobe 27 Oct 2013

RoboBusiness 2013, held last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, was a revitalized example of previous RoboBusiness events. Throughout the three-day event, there was renewed e...

Video interviews from Robot Block Party 2013

AJung Moon 24 Apr 2013

On April 10th, Robot Block Party 2013 took place right after We Robot conference. Of course, I had an extra day to spend at Stanford University after the conference and couldn't miss out on the eve...

So long, and thanks for all the bots!

Markus Waibel 12 Feb 2013

So, depending on who you ask, Willow Garage is shutting down, pursuing commercial interests, or changing direction. But things are not as dire as some may think: ROS is fine (the OSRF will support it)...

Moving objects on a tray without falling off

John Payne 01 Oct 2012

Keeping the tray level is not enough... http://www.willowgarage.com/ for more info. See on www.youtube.com...

PR2 robot plays pool

John Payne 09 Sep 2012

Willow Garage's Pool Shark team has programmed the PR2 to play pool, in what they call a short hackathon sprint. Using a special bridge and grip, to allow it to power shots with wrist motions, its h...

European Robotics Forum 2013 in Lyon, France

Andra Keay 09 Jul 2012

INNOROBO | Innovation Robotics Summit (European Robotics Forum 2013 in Lyon, France http://t.co/klAfRdkk #robotique...)... See on www.innorobo.com...

The pursuit of collaboration

John Payne 05 May 2010

Two heads are generally better than one, and while that truism doesn't necessarily scale very well, it can and often does in the open source software movement. Willow Garage is out to make it...

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