PR2 Quick Start Contest Videos

Our founder Scott Hassan challenged the PR2 Beta Site participants to get the PR2 to "do something cool, funny, or useful." To be fair to advisors and bosses, entrants were also told that the "competition should not interfere with your work or research duties."

What could these sites do in a short period of time? Checkout the results below.

First Place ($5000): Sockification, Berkeley: Ping Chuan Wang, Stephen Miller, Mario Fritz, Trevor Darrell, Pieter Abbeel

Second Place ($3000): Mailman, Bosch: Ben Pitzer

Third Place ($2000): PR2 Band, University of Pennsylvania: Ben Cohen, Daniel Benamy and Mike Phillips

Other entries

• PR2 StrongBOT, Georgia Tech
• Towel Folding, Social Network Edition, Berkeley
• Book Bot, MIT
• Checkout Bot, Stanford
• Self Portrait, Bosch
• PR2 Darumasan, JSK
• Painter, KU Leuven
• Head tracking, Penn