January 2008 Archives

We have the first real mechanical components of PR2 assembled - the steerable driven casters that move it around. These were built by Function Engineering, and we're in the process of testing and building them together into a base. The sensor with three wires hanging off is a hall-effect sensor for absolute calibration of rotation. The caster also has three motors and three incremental encoders - one to rotate the caster and one to drive each wheel.

The Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage is working to build a hardware and software development platform for personal robotics applications.  Updates on progress will live here, and documentation can be found in our wiki.