1. Brian Gerkey Director of Open Source Development Accelerating Personal Robotics: Willow Garage, PR2, and ROS

3. What is Willow Garage? A new, growing robotics research and development lab – Focused on autonomous devices – Non-military – Open Source – Dedicated to making things that will have impact – Privately funded – Space for 60+ in Menlo Park, a short walk from Palo Alto and Stanford University

4. Where is Willow Garage?

5. Why now? Convergence of trends – Toward autonomous mobile robots in natural environments (as opposed to fixed automation) – Toward privately-funded research 5

6. 2010 Personal Robotics 2060 1960 Industrial Robotics

7. Personal Robotics

8. We do things just for fun, too.

9. Personal Robotics

15. Robustness Burn in tests

19. Robots using ROS Non PR2 ROS hardware

21. Most asked question ☺ What is the business model? Be a catalyst in the growth of a new personal robotics industry Do long-term research and development, and also seize near-term opportunities as they arise Impact more important than profit (lucky us) Long-term Goal: Seed and Cultivate a Personal Robotics Industry

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