What makes PR2 robot a hot cake for every household?

Everyone wishes to be more prolific both at work and at home, and personal robot applications allow people to achieve this objective. What makes Willow Garage’s PR2 all the rage is that it is mobile enough for navigating human environment and also comes with the adroitness to grab and manipulate the objects in that environment. With PR2, you can focus on a specific work, or can also benefit from specialized work in other areas. It comes with over a thousand software libraries and a hardware platform, which allow you to concentrate on new and improved capabilities. You can take advantage of its open platform and can modify the system as per your needs at different levels. As the robot was fabricated in the GRASP lab of the Pennsylvania University, it is nicknamed ‘Graspy’. GRASP stands for General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception. The design is durable enough to let you try new applications and ideas directly on PR2. Many new features are added regularly, which makes this robot even more popular.

1. Skills like managing beer bottles, carrying out housework, and bagging groceries are added to the robot as a result of the experiments conducted by researchers across the globe. This makes PR2 even more efficient.
2. The engineers working at University of Pennsylvania bestowed literacy skills on PR2. At the GRASP lab, Menglong Zhu and other colleagues taught PR2 to identify printed wording on paper, handwriting on a whiteboard and signs as well. It recognizes text using a Tesseract OCR software and then reads them aloud. Reading like a child makes Graspy even cuter.
3. Even though robots look like scary objects sometimes, which will rule our world someday, it has to be admitted that they are impressive; and for now, they are co-dependent, as well. They cannot even recharge themselves devoid of someone’s help. The new offering from Willow Garage is pretty different, as PR2 has the capability of maneuvering through crowded offices, and can also open up unlocked doors in search of power outlets.
4. If you have seen how PR2 searches for power outlets, then you need to take a look at the latest developments. At UC Berkeley, some researchers have taught PR2 to fold towels. The task might not look that tough, yet it is interesting for the robotic laundry examiners. The PR2 can fold a towel in 25 minutes and it is still far a way from becoming the king of laundry.
5. From manufacturing to services, repetitive tasks take up your maximum time. Now, you can make applications for those tasks and can make them more enjoyable and productive with this robot. Whether doing the laundry or the dishes, these applications can take care of many tasks. All you need to do is to leave the job to the robot. You can even make an application for those, who are living in assisted facility, and can enable them live without help.This makes life easier and better for people.