Willow Garage PR2 Demonstrates Fine Motor Skills
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 23 of April , 2009 at 1:33 am
Many teleoperated robots strive for gripping systems that emulate the human hand as closely as possible, the logic being that the closer a robot’s hand is to a human hand, the easier it will be to control. Willow Garage’s PR2 robot instead uses simple, two prong grippers that nonetheless exhibit an enviable amount of precision dexterity:
The PR2 is designed to be a development platform, so that researchers can work on robotic problems without having to go through all the trouble of building a robot. It’s sort of like an iRobot Create… It’s a basic system with wheels and motors and sensors and batteries and stuff, but you can get as creative as you want with it. The PR2 isn’t quite ready for release yet, but it should soon be made available to academic and industrial research institutions.
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