Tag Archives: Willow Garage

HARK! Sound Separation Software for Telepresence Robots (Video)

Part of the reason animals have two ears it to help them pinpoint where a sound is coming from and [...]

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Breaking News: Willow Garage Announces 11 Winners for its Robot Give Away

Today is a good day to be a robotics engineer. Not only is it the first day of ICRA, it’s [...]

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Willow Garage Celebrates April Fools’ with “Telepresence for Robots” Video

Everyone likes playing April Fools’ pranks, but when you get robots in on the action, it’s just that much funnier. [...]

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Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot to Fold Towels – Simply Stunning Video

Robots just got roped into doing some light housework. Researchers at UC Berkeley used Willow Garage’s PR2 robot to fold [...]

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Willow Garage Shares Specs for TeleRobot, Takes It To Show and Tell at School

Wouldn’t you have loved to be the kid who brought a real life working robot to school for show and [...]

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Willow Garage Creates Awesome Open Source Telepresence Robots

Fans of open source robotics need look no further than Willow Garage. Not satisfied with merely creating an amazing robot [...]

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Willow Garage Gives Away 10 Open Source Robots

Open source robotics received a huge boost in momentum last Friday. Willow Garage, one of the driving forces behind the [...]

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HUBO-2 Robot Shows Off (Video)

The Beatles and The Monkees. Scooby-Doo and Josie and The Pussycats. Transformers and Gobots. It seems like whenever someone creates [...]

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Intel Robot Senses Wall Outlet, Plugs Itself In

The robots are starting to feed themselves. Marvin, the prototype from Intel Labs Seattle, can now plug itself into a [...]

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Someone Made A Flexpicker Out of Legos – Video

Okay, I love Legos, I love robots, I even love robotic Legos, but I can’t decide if the tribute FlexPicker [...]

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Robots to Get Open Source Operating System

E Pluribus Unum…robot? The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) saw a lot of amazing robots and computer programs. [...]

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