Willow Garage

For about the price of a car, research labs around the world can purchase the UBR-1, a new mobile manipulation robot from Unbounded Robotics. It's a spin-off of Willow Garage, the company behind the PR2 robot which is famous for doing everyday tasks like folding laundry.

Maya Cakmak, Georgia Tech, spent the summer at Willow Garage developing software that allows users to program the robot through demonstration

Suitable Technologies, a spin-off of Willow Garage, has revealed the Beam remote presence system.

Spanish start-up Aisoy Robotics is marketing a new robot that, while it may look similar to the famous Furby, is actually a fully programmable research and development platform.

Willow Garage has just released the PR2 SE, a lower-priced one-armed version of its PR2 robot.

Willow Garage has teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to launch an international "perception challenge" with the goal of encouraging improvements to sensing and perception technologies for next-generation robots.

Willow Garage has officially announced the commercial availability of its PR2 robot.

RoboEarth will be a a collective worldwide online memory for robots, wherein robots can learn from each other's capabilities, thus streamlining the process of adopting new operations.

Robotics company Willow Garage is giving ten of its PR2 robots to deserving research groups, in hopes of creating an open-source robotics platform.