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.