UBC lab welcomes a new “soft touch” mobile robot system
UBC’s Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CARIS) — led by Mechanical Engineering Prof. Elizabeth Croft – has acquired a new human friendly robot. UBC is the first Canadian university to work with the PR2 model from Willow Garage, a U.S.-based developer of personal robot open source software and hardware. Dubbed Charlie by the […]