Willow Garage To Give Away 10 Open Source Robots

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 18, 2010 @04:57PM from the bend-to-the-tempest dept.

kkleiner writes "Open source robotics received a huge momentum boost last Friday. Willow Garage, one of the driving forces behind the Robot Operating System, announced that it would be giving away ten of its new and extraordinary PR2 Beta Robots. Willow Garage has an open call for proposals, so that any research group can apply to receive one of the PR2 Betas free of charge. Applicants will have to release their research with the PR2 freely and under standard open source agreements. In this way, Willow Garage is accelerating the field of robotics, not just by making their PR2 Betas available, but by encouraging the shared development of robots and advocating an open source approach."

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What kind of shape is that by davester666 · 2010-01-18 17:22 · Score: 3, Funny

You can't put a very realistic human face/body over that robot to make a Terminator. How exactly is one to start the apocalypse without an army of humanoid robots?

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Re:Free? by Jethro · 2010-01-18 18:18 · Score: 3, Funny

I wouldn't use such sophisticated machines for something as trivial as a prom! I have a driveway that needs shovelling!

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