1. PR2 Christian Sanchez MIS 304

2. PR2 Video

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. New accomplishments Video 2

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