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Open-Source Robots Distributed
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| Robotics company Willow Garage has started
| a two-year project to work with
| institutions from around the world on new
| applications for its robot: the PR2. Each
| of 11 teams will work on their own
| projects, but will share their code with
| each other and the rest of the world.
| Everything created will be open-source,
| meaning others can use the code for their
| own endeavors. (The PR2 runs on a software
| platform called Robot Open Source, also
| developed by Willow Garage.)
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25245/
Willow Garage rolls out PR2 robots (photos)
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10003581.html
Willow Garage gets robots into researchers' hands
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/05/27/cnet.willow.garage.robots/
Recent:
Five Reasons Willow Garage is Going to Succeed
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| 4. Willow Garage is community first,
| personal gain second. The whole company is
| focused on how they can work with the global
| community to advance the field of robotics
| as a whole. This is largely expressed in the
| open source licensing of everything they do,
| and their insistence that everyone who uses
| the PR2 follow the same open sharing. Even
| more than that, itâs apparent in their
| attitudes. Keenan Wyrobek, Co-Director of
| Personal Robotics, freely admitted that
| other groups are working on PR2 like robots,
| and may soon make them cheaper and perhaps
| even better. He liked this idea. He wants
| other groups to innovate, to expand, and to
| improve the field of robotics. Itâs
| cooperation first, competition later.
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http://singularityhub.com/2010/05/27/five-reasons-willow-garage-is-going-to-succeed/
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