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Willow Garage To Give Away 10 Open Source Robots

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. no rfid chip, no brain chip, i choose life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so NO to the lizards!

  2. Re:Linux should be banned by ustolemyname · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hilarious

    Operating Systems like Linux discriminate against women because of a built in difficulty compared with Windows and Apple's OS X.

    So, you're saying we shouldn't discriminate against women, but calling them stupid is okay?

  3. Re:Linux should be banned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do niggers always have tinted windows? They don't, it's the black rubbing off.