The Korean electronics giant is among the first four customers for Silicon Valley startup Willow Garage's PR2: a human-sized, two-armed wheeled robot intended for academic and industrial robotics research.READ»
We're interacting more and more with robots in our daily lives, and are soon going to much more--but how exactly does one emotionally interact with one's 'bot? New research is trying an unusual tactic: Giving robots expressive eyes, and animal-like ears that glow.READ»
Microsoft's Kinect is being hacked left, right and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: Kinect, a robot, and gesture control.READ»
This week marks the third anniversary of ROS, an open-source software platform for the robotics industry developed by Stanford and Silicon Valley robotics research lab Willow Garage.READ»
