{"id":735294,"date":"2010-05-28T01:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7532"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:45:54","slug":"open-source-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/735294","title":{"rendered":"Open source robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great idea and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/guest\/25245\/?nlid=3043\" >ought to really help out robotics hobbyists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Robotics company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowgarage.com\/\" >Willow Garage<\/a> has started a two-year project to work with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowgarage.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/pr2-beta-program-recipients\" >institutions from around the world<\/a> on new applications for its robot: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowgarage.com\/pages\/robots\/pr2-overview\" >PR2<\/a>. Each of 11 teams will work on their own projects, but will share their code with each other and the rest of the world. Everything created will be open-source, meaning others can use the code for their own endeavors. (The PR2 runs on a software platform called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ros.org\/\" >Robot Open Source<\/a>, also developed by Willow Garage.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7532\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great idea and ought to really help out robotics hobbyists. From the link: Robotics company\u00a0Willow Garage has started a two-year project to work with\u00a0institutions from around the world on new applications for its robot: the\u00a0PR2. Each of 11 teams will work on their own projects, but will share their code with each other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836819,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735294\/revisions\/836819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}