PR2, mobile manipulation platform, Willow Garage, Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA

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Manufacturer - Willow Garage, Inc.

wiki.ros.org/Robots/PR2

 

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PR2 Beta Program

Uploaded on Mar 1, 2010

 

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PR2 Robot Plays Pool

Uploaded on Jun 15, 2010

 

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PR2 Robot Cleans Up with a Cart

Uploaded on Jun 23, 2010

 

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PR2 Robot Fetches Beer from the Refrigerator

Uploaded on Jul 6, 2010

 

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Article "PlatformBot: Willow Garage's Secret Robot Prototype"

by Evan Ackerman
April 11, 2014

 

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Ross Finman's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Published on Sep 2, 2014

CSAIL graduate student Ross Finman is nominated by his former colleague Hordur Johannsson to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but Ross soon discovers that Hordur is not the only one--or only thing--that wants him to participate...

 

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Project Birdhouse: Autonomous Robotic Assembly : Robot with a Nailgun!

Published on Jun 16, 2015

This work was done at the Search-based Planning Laboratory in CMU's Robotics Institute.

The birdhouse team (Ben Cohen, Mike Phillips and Ellis Ratner) got a PR2 to build birdhouses via a autonomous flexible assembly model.

 

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Robot PR2: Human Robot Interaction

Published on Nov 9, 2015

 

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HuggieBot

Published on Jun 5, 2018

At the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) earlier this year, the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, presented a paper on “Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs.” Their work explores how robots can be more effectively designed and taught to give the kinds of hugs that humans will love.

The research presented at HRI is an attempt to figure some of this out, by conducting a study where participants hugged a specially modified PR2 named HuggieBot.

"The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug"
Knowing how to give good hugs is an important life skill, even for robots

by Evan Ackerman
June 5, 2018