PR2 Robot Fetches Beer from the Refrigerator
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Willow Garage Intern Challenge
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Willow Garage - RoboDevelopment 2007
visit: vishots.com Keenan Wyrobek from Stanford University is working closely with Willow Garage to continue the development work he and Eric Berger started while in their graduate studies at Stanford University. He shows off PR1 and explains the goals of the Personal Robotics Program and the next generation, PR2. Via Stanford University Website: Kenneth Salisbury, a professor of Computer Science and of Surgery leads the Personal Robotics Program at Stanford with CS Assistant Professor Andrew Ng in coordination with the department's STAIR project. After about 18 months of work, they have developed a first prototype. It is remotely controlled now (eventually it will become more autonomous) but it is an early milestone on the way to releasing a practical, affordable and complete robotics platform.
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Up Close With The Willow Garage PR2 Robot
Here is an in depth demonstration of the features and capabilities of the willow garage PR2 robot
Willow Garage Shows Off PR2 Robot
Press conference held by Willow Garage, a robotics firm in Menlo Park, Calif., to discuss its PR2 Beta Program, in which 11 institutions in the US, Europe, and Japan will receive PR2 robots to develop new applications. The event, which took place 26 May 2010, was recorded via Texai telepresence robot created by Willow Garage. For more robot news, go to spectrum.ieee.org
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Willow Garage PR2 Robots GRADUATE
The first robots graduation ceremony in history, Willow Garage's Eric Berger and Keenan Wyrobek announce the 11 recipient winners
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(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels
Project was led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard working with Professor Pieter Abbeel. The video is shown at 50X speed. More details can be found in the paper at www.cs.berkeley.edu
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Taylor Veltrop on Willow Garage ROS and Kinect for Robotics
Taylor Veltrop, an experienced humanoid robot builder developing systems that utilize Willow Garage ROS, explained how he has integrated the Kinect system to act as a master/slave controller for his robot. For more information visit Robots Dreams at www.robots-dreams.com. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Milestone 2 Start to Finish
If you're having trouble viewing this video outside the US, please see: www.willowgarage.com For more information, please see www.willowgarage.com A complete playback of our Milestone 2 run. The actual run was 58 minutes long. In order to spare you having to sit through 58 minutes of video, we have sped up most of the video 20x, with some segments played back in real time. For more information, please visit www.willowgarage.com
Robin Williams Interacts with a Willow Garage Texai
Autodesk's Jonathan Knowles, using a Willow Garage remote presence Texai robot, virtually attends the XPrize Gala fundraiser, chats with Robin Williams.
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Dreamer says hello to the Willow Garage team
These sketches present our current progress in whole-body compliant control of humanoid robots at Willow Garage. The idea is to combine torque-based compliant behaviors for Cartesian and joint space tasks. This approach enables to respond quickly to contact, be safe and use effectively the dynamics of the mechanism. The focus of this research is more on the skill than on the single low level control process. We provide infrastructure to bridge the gap between the skill developer (who cares about the mathematics of movement and robot dynamics) and the skill user (who cares about motion / high level planning and perception). At the software level we use task and behavior introspection to create easy to use human readable specificatons of the skills. The whole-body compliant control framework provides task hierarchy, optimization of asks, and checking of skill feasibility at runtime.
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Willow Garage's PR2 Robots Graduate
Willow Garage graduates its first class of PR2 Robots, sending them off to Universities (and one company) around the world.
Willow Garage's Scott Hassan: PR2 Launch Party
Scott Hassan gives emotional and touching speech about how their work at Willow Garage with PR2 robots and beyond matter & how robots will help change the world - assisting in everything from assisting the elderly to improving our productivity.
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Pomp and circuitry: Willow Garage's robot graduation
Highlights from the first graduation ceremony of eleven PR2 robots from Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Using the Minoru webcam with Willow Garage ROS
Here is an example of the commands needed to create a ROS publisher node which broadcasts stereo images and a disparity map from the Minoru webcam. The parameters for dense stereo may not be the greatest, but this gives some idea of what can be expected. To begin I run roscore, then I run stereocam_broadcast followed by stereocam_subscribe. For more info see code.google.com code.google.com
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Willow Garage PR2 Robot Party and Dance
Watch as willow garage pr2 robots perform a synchronized flag dance and then see people partying it up with the robots
How Willow Garage's Robots are going to Change the World!
Willow Garage founder Scott Hassan introduces Keenan Wyrobek and Eric Berger who talk about how their new PR2 robots and how they are going to change the world.
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Kinect Telerobotics at Willow Garage
Willow Garage folks control a PR2 remotely using a kinect to watch the operator. Red target claws are where the person puts her/his hands and the robot uses kinematics to smoothly move its hands there too.
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Willow Garage Open Source Robot Revolution - PR2
Willow Garage Open Source Robot Revolution - PR2
Tokyo University/JSK Visit
For more information, please see www.willowgarage.com Professor Masayuki Inaba, Associate Professor Kei Okada and 4 grad students from JSK Lab, Tokyo University visited Willow Garage from March 15 to March 21, 2009. With only 4 1/2 days of very intensive work (ie sleeping only for a few hours a day), the team has connected their euslisp system with Willow Garage's ROS software. They were able to put together several demonstrations of their euslisp system and ROS working together to operate PR2 alpha robots. As Willow Garage's sincere appreciation for their enthusiastic efforts, each student received a Gphone as a gift and we all experienced a wonderful week developing mutual understanding, friendship, and progress in robotics, transcending differences in language and culture.
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Cookie-baking robot!
This work has been supported in part by Willow Garage and an NDSEG fellowship. We are grateful for this support. CSAIL students programmed the PR2 robot (built by Willow Garage) to perform the wide variety of tasks required to bake cookies (Chocolate Afghans, to be exact). For more info: www.csail.mit.edu
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Learning from Demonstration Robotics Challenge 2011
The Learning from Demonstration Challenge was part of the Robotics Track at the 2011 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Five teams participated using a Willow Garage PR2 and a Barrett WAM.
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