Willow Garage delivers open source robotics: a research platform that will enable scientists around the world to share results and replicate each others' experiments. This paper introduces the latest research results and reports on the open source projects and communities that Willow Garage supports. It also includes information on the Willow Garage beta program that will make available 10 PR2 robots at no cost to researchers, and on the future direction and opportunities surrounding the company, partners and community members. |