Willow Garage’s PR2 robot

posted Jul 7th 2009 7:53am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: robots hacks

We would like you to meet PR2. Made by Willow Garage, PR2 is a platform for research into robotic programming. The bot itself is simple compared to some of the humanoid bots we see, but its behavior is quite complex. In the video above, you see PR2 completing milestone 2 of its development. This includes navigating an office with closed doors and plugging itself into a standard wall outlet for a charge. We’re especially fond of the “wiggle”. You can hear some of the developers talk more about PR2 and its completion of milestone 2 in the video after the break.

[via BotJunkie]

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tagged: autonomous, charge, plug in, pr2

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pr2 is so…cute! His behaviorisms (wiggling, etc) are seemingly quite un-robotic, and therefore endearing :)

Posted at 8:23 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Jake of All Trades

That is one heck of a difficult task. Congratulations to them!

Posted at 8:57 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Kyle

I look forward to seeing milestone 3 :)

Posted at 9:33 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by nave.notnilc

Well done boys, well done. Does it work with white outlets though :) ?

Posted at 9:40 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by MCscrewdriver

this shit’s old. on engadget weeks ago.

Posted at 9:51 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by redtooth

@redtooth

milestone 2, dumbass

Posted at 9:53 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by g-ranger

Prety cool. All it needs is an onboard speaker with the benny hill theme tune playing.

Posted at 10:05 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by j616

FFS YOUTUBE!
“This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.”

Posted at 12:07 pm on Jul 7th, 2009 by yon

Great, something other than my kids and my cat that is going to interrupt my love making session at night to charge itself. Let’s hope it’ll find the right outlet: “Honey what’s that”, “what? it is not me”

Posted at 1:09 pm on Jul 7th, 2009 by Conino

@nave.notnilc: unfortunately, milestone 3 is when they teach it to build more of itself, and milestone 4 is when it learns to wield weapons.

milestone 5 we all die.

Posted at 1:39 pm on Jul 7th, 2009 by theTwiz

Actually milestone 5 is “get struck by lightning causing a morality routine to become active and begin quest to protect its favorite humans while eliminating the other robots from milestone 3″ Milestone 6 is to get slagged by aforementioned robots, milestone 7 is we all die. But that doesn’t happen until at least the third sequel.
:-)

Posted at 4:18 pm on Jul 7th, 2009 by tommy

not available in my country due to copyright restrictions? what the fsck!?!(@*&

Posted at 5:02 pm on Jul 7th, 2009 by svofski

“this video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions”. laaaaaaaaameeee.

Posted at 7:31 am on Jul 8th, 2009 by entropia

wow i like this robot

Posted at 3:28 pm on Nov 17th, 2009 by forex robot

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