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Willow Garage sent 11 PR2 robots to Institutions for research on Personal Robotics

Written on May 30th, 2010 at 19:14 pm by shredder12

Remember the California based start up, Willow Garage, which has been working on open-source robotics. We even saw some of their ongoing work on PR2(personal robot) robots. A few days back they conducted a graduation party to kick off a two years opensource project.

Wonder what open source robotics is like - Welcome to Willow Garage

Written on April 4th, 2010 at 02:39 am by shredder12

After returning to my room, I immediately googled "open source robots" and found about the brilliant initiative of this research based company "Willow Garage" to involve the world in personal robots development. After reading about them, their achievements and even some of the videos showing the demos, I certainly became a fan. And I am proud to say that intiatives like these are going to make a huge change in the world of robotics development.

ROS in Modular Robotics: Modlab's CKBots

Written on April 6th, 2010 at 19:30 pm by shredder12

A few days ago I wrote about open-source robotics and mentioned the open-source Robot Operating System, ROS. I searched a bit to find out which organizations or research labs use this for their robotics research and found out about the Modular Robotics lab at University of Pennsylvania. These guys work on building modular robots and they have been able to do some really cool things with them.

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