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In an in any case that made many robot enthusiasts and tech nerds tear up, 11 robots carried flags and waved their arms as they rolled down an aisle as part of their “graduation.”
The 11 ideal PR2 robots are from Menlo Park, California, robotics company Willow Garage . Over the last few months, the robots have been trained for their new entity in research labs worldwide where they will be used to create applications and solve problems.
The robots, each of which cost $400,000, will be working with 11 probing teams whose proposals were chosen in a contest that Willow Garage organized in January.
“Robots can do great things for our restraint,” Scott Hassan, founder of Willow Garage, told attendees at the event. “They can exchange our lives in a big way and these robots are capable of doing it in my lifetime.”
Among the tasks that the robots will be put to are folding towels and doing laundry, knowledge how drawers and refrigerators open, picking up items scattered on a floor, and developing 3-D perception to perform tasks such as environment a table and emptying a dishwasher.
