17

Jan

Willow Garage’s PR2 Beta Program

Willow Garage, my favorite robotics company, has just announced its PR2 Beta Program. PR2 is a highly compliant, personal robot with the best compliant arm in the industry. It is the flagship robot for the Robotics Operating System (ROS) and has demonstrated complex tasks such as the opening of doors, plugging itself into a wall power supply and intricate manipulation tasks.

PR2 Robot (source: Willow Garage)

And the best parts is that the PR2 is going for free!

For more information on the call for proposals, look here.

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Open-Source/Robotics

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13

Oct

Chaiwala

I’ve been long contemplating on starting a professional blog to discuss my opinions on robotics, design and accessibility.  Maybe I’ll get to it within the next month.

For now, the rendering of Chaiwala, our indoor research platform should suffice. A more detailed writeup is in the works.

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Design/Robotics

09

Nov

The Grand Slam

I’m planning on attending the Summer SLAM School 2009 in Sydney this Jan. I had to write a one page statement as to why I should be allowed to attend. Here it is:

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Research/Robotics/Thinks

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