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Willow Garage's low-cost kit can track people and take panoramic pics of your home. It also possesses the ultimate robot skill: serving drinks on a tray. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Willow Garage, the Menlo Park, California-based consortium of robotics experts, founded by Scott Hassan in 2006 to create or develop hardware and open source software for the ...

The TurtleBot is a platform that allows users and programmers to start with a premade base model and then customize to a specific application. TurtleBot uses an iRobot Create and an Xbox Kinect system ...

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Since launching in 2007, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has become the most widely used programming language for commanding robots. As an opensource language, the creation of ROS has made it easier ...

Want to try out ROS (Robot Operating System) on an official Willow Garage product, but don't have the $400,000 required to pick up our old pal, PR2? You're precisely the audience the company is ...

For those that have been drooling over Willow Garage's PR2, the Silicon Valley robotics company has a way to curb your hunger. Starting early this summer, Willow Garage will be shipping orders of ...

Amid a deep discussion of advanced telemetric robotics last night, NYTimes’ Nick Bilton broke the pace with, “Have you seen the TurtleBot?” But no, oh, marvelous me! I had not seen the TurtleBot!