Rights to the PR2 robot landed in the hands of Clearpath Robotics, after Willow Garage was shut down in 2014. Clearpath is now providing access to the robot’s design files on its website.

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Their project is called the Robots for Humanity. And, says Romania-born Ciocarlie, “with PR2, we hope to use mobile manipulation to help people with disabilities regain a sense of independence.

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“By receiving the PR2 robot, it affirms that USC and Viterbi is one of the leading groups in robotics in the world,” said Gaurav Sukhatme, USC professor and director of research in the department of ...

Willow Garage has been working on its cool PR2 robot for a long time now. I still say the bot looks like Rosie from the Jetsons and if it could vacuum my floors and cook dinner, I might want one.

"Raphael, the PR2 robot, was in charge of fetching and bringing tools and ingredients to Boxy, who manipulated the pizza dough, and added the pizza ingredients," reads a description of the ...

PR2, a two armed robot is optimised for human environments and situations. In tests, the robot has been able to pick up and manipulate various office items, like pens, binders, and textbooks.

This robot may look like he’s about to perform open heart surgery, dressed in head to robo-toe plastic, but he’s actually just baking chocolate cookies, Chocolate Afghans, to be exact.

That has Willow Garage beat thousands of times over. Yet the PR2 is both more practical and more accessible. The techniques used to keep the PR2 running autonomously are available to all robot ...

Open source robotics received a huge boost in momentum 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 ...