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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 4, 2010
Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab is welcoming a new member to its growing family of robots.
Robotics research lab Willow Garage, which develops open-source software and hardware for robotics applications, awarded the lab one of 11 of its PR2 robots as part of its PR2 Beta Program.
Willow Garage received 78 proposals for the 11 robots, which are valued at $4.4 million. Other recipients include MIT CSAIL, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Tokyo, Jouhou System Kougaku (JSK) Laboratory.
The Healthcare Robotics Lab will be placing the PR2 robot into Georgia Tech's Aware Home to study how robots interact with older adults with assistive requirements and aid in developing software that reflects the read world needs of these individuals.
