Willow Garage PR2 Demonstrates Needy Behavior

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 15 of July , 2009 at 4:37 am

Willow Garage’s PR2 robot has a pretty good idea of how to plug itself in if it needs recharging, but what if it can’t find an outlet, or it needs some additional help? This concept animation (which includes mechanical movements that the current version of PR2 can’t execute) explores some of the potential for the robot to express what it wants to a human using physical motion, and what they’ve got demoed here totally works on me in a way that a flashing “charge me” light never could. I might even call it Wall-E-esque.

One more behavior simulation, after the jump.

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