Must-Have Robots Come Nearer With Software Explosion
From: New Scientist - 01/19/2012
By: Celeste Biever 

Several new robotics designs were shown at the recent Homebrew Robotics Club
meeting at Willow Garage. GRASP Lab researchers demonstrated software that
enables Willow Garage's PR2 robot to identify and read signs, as well as
predict the movement of people and navigate around them. Georgia Institute of
Technology researchers used a PR2 robot to help a quadriplegic man move
objects around his house and control a computer mouse. 

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Links:
Homebrew Robotics Club
http://hbrobotics.org/

GRASP Lab
https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/

GRASP Lab teaches robot to read
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2011-06-09/latest-news/grasp-lab-teaches-robot-read

Willow Garage
http://www.willowgarage.com/

'Robots for Humanity' helps quadriplegic perform daily tasks
http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=68969

PR2 and ROS in action at Penn
http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2011/06/09/pr2-and-ros-action-penn