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Media Contact
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for Suitable Technologies or Beam:
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Recent Press Releases
January 15, 2014: Clearpath Robotics to Service and Support PR2 at least Through 2016
August 21, 2013: Willow Garage Employees Join Suitable Technologies
July 15, 2013: Rise of the Telepresence Robots
December 14, 2010: Willow Garage Announces PR2 Robot Community Continues Expansion in Asia, Europe and North America
May 4, 2010: Willow Garage Gives Away 11 Robots Worth Over $4 Million to Accelerate Robotics Applications & Research
"It's absolutely 100% weird to turn into a robot."
– Chris Gorman, Head of Office Experience, Square
"I feel like we're on the cusp of a revolution. Fifty years from now, when someone is writing a book on the history of robotics, I think Willow Garage and ROS will have played a big role in getting robots into our homes."
– Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
"Instead of creating products that are incrementally superior, Willow Garage is developing the underlying technologies that a robotics industry will require. If Willow Garage succeeds, it will exponentially increase the pace of robotics development."
– Stefan Schaal, Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, USC
"At the center of the open source ideal is the concept that we can get more done if we work together than if we work separately. You can go to the Moon on that attitude."
– ZDNet, "Willow Garage shows how open source is supposed to
work"
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PR2 Frequently Asked Questions
PR2 Photos (complete set at http://www.flickr.com/ photos/willowgarage/sets/ 72157623733548025/)
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PR2 Beta Wireframes
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Software Screenshots
Description: software visualization of PR2 picking up objects on a table using ROS
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