Opening Doors

For more information, please see http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2009/03/13/autonomously-opening-doors

Wim Meeussen talks about recent progress with getting the PR2 robot to autonomously open doors.

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Science & Technology

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• willowgarage
• pr2

[GreenBlueClouds]

That is insanley cool but it could help if a more developed version would turn the knob slower, haha it would certianly scare someone..

[donalbl]

nice info vids friends

[davepamn]

does the behavior of open and closing doors upload to the cloud for download by other pr2 to perform

[Riddlerx333x]

sorry luisbeck007 thats was an incorrect statement. The human brain does 100 trillion calculations per sec. Laptop processors by that time will only cycle the most 8-10 ghz (8-10 billions calculations due to overheating issues). It would be more like year 2040-50 we will see a supercomputer with human like cognition.

[Riddlerx333x]

The Japanese and Koreans refine technology............America makes the technology. xD

This robot is my favorirte because it actually has function associated with it. You look at asimo and other "high level" robots they dont have the characteristics like this machine does. PR2 = top of the line.

[AmberwiseTheWise]

Another robot vid that isnt taking the mickey! Well done! Keep up the good work! :D

[grbradsk]

The laser is decently safe -- the much bigger problem is that it is just too slow to do the up/down scan. Fast/accurate depth mapping will be an enabler for robotics. We are working on using stereo with projected light. Many other methods are possible with many other tradeoffs -- how much light you can put out vs/power use and eye safety, the sensitivity of the sensor etc. Not easy ... but that's what makes it fun.

[motters2001]

This looks like excellent work! I remain skeptical though about the use of scanning laser rangefinders for mapping within domestic environments. Would these pass safety regulations for people and also for pets?