PR2Christian Sanchez

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PR2

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Willow Garage

•Research lab in Menlo Park, California•Develop hardware and open source

software (for personal robotics applications)

•In 2009, Willow Garage created a robot that can open doors, locate power outlets, and plug itself. The PR2

PR2

•It’s a two-armed wheeled robot of size similar to a human.

•They plan to released to the public for academic and industrial robotics research.

•The PR2 is a spinoff of PR1, a robotics platform being created at Stanford.

•It uses ROM (robot operating system) and the OpenCV computer vision library.

PR2 Specifications• Has two 7-DOF arms with a payload of 1.8kg.• Sensors include a 5 megapixel camera, a tilting laser

range finder, and an inertial measurement unit.• The “texture projector” projects a pattern on the

environment to create 3D information for capture by cameras, “texture light”.

• The head-mounted laser scanner measures distance by time-of light.

• The two computers located on the base of the robot are 8-core servers with 24 Gigabytes of RAM for a total of 48 GB.

• The battery system consists of 16 laptop batteries.

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So how long before it can distinguish between good and bad beer?

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