An open platform for robotics research

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Date Thursday June 18th 2009
Time 4:00-5:00pm
Venue George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC

PARC Forum

Personal Robotics research and development are accelerating.  A growing community of Open Source developers is creating a platform called ROS that anyone can build on to make the breakthroughs that will lead to new applications.  Willow Garage is building a personal robot platform, PR2, which has two arms, a mobile base, and a rich sensor suite. This talk will review the current status of ROS and PR2, and discuss opportunities to join the ROS Open Source community.

 

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Steve Cousins is the President and CEO of Willow Garage.  Before  Willow, Steve was a senior manager at IBM's Almaden Research Center.  He has been on the senior staff of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and a researcher at Interval Research Corporation.  Steve holds a PhD in CS from Stanford University, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Washington University.

 

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