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There’s not much the PR2 can’t do at this point. It hustles pool. It folds laundry. It (arguably) applies prophylactics. And as of today, it can do all of these things as your personal robot slave. If you’re filthy rich. More »
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The creators of the PR2 robot are finally done making it fold their laundry. Now they’ve finally put it to some good, honest labour: billiards. It’s just like The colour of Money, except Paul Newman is a task-oriented robot. More »
Willow Garage’s PR2 robot already knew how to find its own electrical outlet. Now that it’s also learning how to generalise actions, it’s only a matter of time before it’s mixing me the perfect highball. More »
