Need A Sweet Helping Hand At Home? Get The PR2 For Your Everyday Chores!

I guess we all want to be in a relaxed mood both at our office and at home. Willow Garage’s PR2 will be your best bet if you need some off-time in your life. So, what is the Willow Garage’s PR2? Willow is a personal robot who is very comfortable navigating in the human environment.

It is powered with the capability of scanning and manipulating objects in such an environment. Also called Graspy, which is its nickname, it was manufactured in the GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception) laboratory at Pennsylvania University. It consists of a hardware platform that runs approximately 1000 software programs.

These different kinds of software programs enhance the upgraded facilities provided by Graspy. Its open platform is an additional advantage, which modifies the system according to the user’s requirement at various stages.

The basic design of the PR2 is so improved and durable that new ideas and applications can easily be applied to it. Therefore, easy input of new features makes this human friendly robot more popular in our environment. 

There are many characteristics in PR2 very different from other usual robots that are available today. PR2 is not at all scary looking, but has a pleasing and impressive look.

It looks like any other cute children’s toy. Most of the present-day robots are dependent on external help to recharge themselves, but PR2 has the capability of maneuvering through crowded places to search for power sources.

Engineers working on the PR2 have input literary skills to it as well. It can decipher signs and printed words on paper as well as handwritten words on a whiteboard.

The Tesseract OCR installed on it helps it to identify text. Its skill of reading text loudly like a child makes it more cute and lovable.

There is no question about its efficiency. It can hold an object, scan it, and put it in the place where it belongs.

Therefore, it is not less than any automatic checkout clerk. It also has additional skills like bagging groceries, carrying out domestic work and managing bottles.

Moreover, its latest (and most attractive) development is that it folds a towel in 25 minutes, proving that it can become a laundry master very soon. The credit for this development goes to the researchers at UC Berkeley.

Repetitive tasks sometimes become very boring and time consuming. With the PR2, these jobs become enjoyable, interesting and productive.

We only have to command and leave the task to Graspy. It takes care to complete the work assigned to it on time, whether it is simple laundry work or reading a newspaper. The PR2 makes human life much better and easier.

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