powdermonkey: An Open Source Platform for Personal Robots

March 05, 2008

An Open Source Platform for Personal Robots

Steve Cousins

- Willow Garage out of Stanford
- Private Robot Ver 1 (PR-1), can go around any ADA compliant bldg. so far only tele-operated
- all open source software
- have produced 10 PR2 robots as a platform for researchers
- people need the ability to tinker

this continues to prove that (eventually) good (and useful) technology eventually becomes open source

Mar 5, 2008 12:37:36 PM | Conf/Meeting, OpenSource

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