Robotics company Willow Garage is giving 10 of its robots free to researchers
in return for a promise that they will share their development efforts with the
open-source community.
“The hardware is designed to be a software developer’s dream with a lot of
compute power inside and many of the annoying problems with general robotic
platforms taken care of,” says Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage. “We have
created a platform that is going to accelerate the development of personal
robotics.”
