As robots go, this isn’t the type of assistant that you’ll see in iRobot. Then again, at least they won’t try to take over the world… we hope.
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Published October 21, 2013
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Three years ago, a Silicon Valley robotics startup called Willow Garage shook things up by offering one of the first robots capable of a wide range of different functions rather than a single focused task.
The so-called PR2 could do anything from folding laundry to picking up something from the floor to delivering a beer, and it was instantly the darling of researchers and robotics fans. The only problem was that it cost $400,000.
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