Willow Garage

Willow Garage PR2 Meeting

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:53:45 GMT

Source: www.icra2013.org --- Friday, May 03, 2013
Join the Willow Garage PR2 session and see what new research and innovations are being done with PR2. ...

Want to join the next Willow Garage? Or the French version of Xerox Parc?

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:49:49 GMT

Source: www.pilotpresence.com --- Monday, March 25, 2013
If you are one of those who wishes they could help in the next robotics revolution, follow up here and apply with your CV (resume for you Americans!) a-lab@aldebaran-robotics.com . Be sure to include the following: Resume with references One paragraph summary of research background List of published papers, currently submitted papers and patents Media and dissemination references if available Date of availability Their blog post follows: A-Lab Launch: we are recruiting! Aldebaran Robotics, the company that commercializes the Nao robot, is launching the A-Lab, a fundamental and applied research unit dedicated to advances in five keys domains: Artificial Intelligence, Mechatronics,Dynamic Control, Interaction, Systems. We are now recruiting young PhDs and senior researchers for permanent positions in Paris covering the following areas of expertize: Developmental Robotics: sensorimotor grounding and language acquisition (lexicon, grammar, compositional actions). Keywords: developmental, embodiment, grounding, language games, imitation, intrinsic motivation, learning, categorization, joint attention, social robotics. Interaction: audio and video signal processing and dialog management in interactive robots. Machine learning, new sensor integration methods. Keywords: gesture recognition, emotions, voice modulation, world representation, dialog engine, task learning, sound optimization, image segmentation, sensor modeling. Mechatronics ...

InnoRobo was a-buzz about Willow Garage…

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:13:10 GMT

Source: www.pilotpresence.com --- Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Last week, we were visiting the 3rd edition of the InnoRobo Conference — an interesting gathering of robotics companies showing off their wares to both the general public and various investors and corporates. Companies that showed off their wares seem to breakdown into five general groupings: vacuum cleaning robots (or base robots), larger humanoid robots, military or recon robots, general robotic features that can be used separately or in conjunction with other systems (e.g., arms, hands, cameras), and other aggregators/distributors of robotic solutions. But, in our exploration of the event, one of our team wore their Willow Garage jacket they owned from a previous era. In doing so, a great many people would suddenly come up to us and say “How is everything at Willow Garage?” or say “I heard things are changing at Willow Garage, all good?” After informing them of the former employment with Willow, we asked what was causing such a strong reaction to the change they heard about. Overall, the tone was both wistful and cautious. Everyone commented on the tremendous impact Willow has had on the robotics community worldwide. One pervasive idea that seemed to permeate the event was that Willow became a sort of Shangri-la of robotics research where researchers could add contributions to the world of robotics and be recognized worldwide. Since Willow nurtured ROS , the PR2 and other Open Source initiatives (e.g., OpenCV) along with th ...