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DIY Drones visits Willow Garage

Posted by Chris Anderson on December 21, 2010 at 7:00pm

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Yesterday some of the DIY Drones team spent the afternoon at Willow garage.  Here Guillermo Romero (who is setting up the Tijuana operation of Udrones, a 3D Robotics partner, and Jordi Munoz with the Willow Garage PR2 that's been travelling the halls of the company for more than 100km (it plugs itself into a charger every two hours, which is what it's doing here).

 

What were we doing there? Well, mostly just geeking out with the engineers there, but there is an interesting project to link Arduino with the Willow Garage Robot Operating Systems (ROS), for swarm coordination. Or, as I hinted on Twitter:

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  • Knuckles904 December 22, 2010 at 9:54pm
    I have been incredibly impressed with willow garage since hearing about them. ROS and the ever growing amount of support for it makes my jaw drop every time I see it
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    Chris Anderson December 22, 2010 at 10:43am
    Mark, Tim and I are just too busy for the podcast right now. But we're be happy to hand it off to someone else with the time and interest (and some talking/questioning ability) to take it over.
  • Mark Grennan December 22, 2010 at 10:33am
    Oh and when are we getting another podcast?
  • Mark Grennan December 22, 2010 at 10:28am
    I was there about a nine months ago.  That visit was a part of my inspiration to begin doing some robotic/drone work of my own.  There are truly some great toys there.  I wished I had had time to pick the brains of some of the people working there.  I was visiting my son Nathan who does there IT support.
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    Chris Anderson December 21, 2010 at 8:44pm
    Michael, yes, it's uDrones, as in microdrones. But they don't expect most people to get it, so it reads okay the other way, too. Just to clarify: they're a distribution/development partner, but not part of 3D Robotics LLC. Like FahPah in Thailand.
  • Michael Zaffuto December 21, 2010 at 8:38pm
    Congratulations on the new venture Chris, assume that

    Udrones above, specifically microdrones, as in µdrones, correct?

     
  • Jarek Ignas-Menzies December 21, 2010 at 8:07pm
    awesome as some one who is looking at using a quad copter to assist my land based robot, that's running ros, this will be very useful.
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