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Part 4: Making Things User-Friendly

Part 4: Making Things User-Friendly

Part 4 of our 5-part documentary about ROS (Robot Operating System). In order to build a larger community around ROS, the team at Willow Garage needed to make the software more user-friendly.

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Robot’s Day At School

Willow alum and UCSC professor, Leila Takayama, conducts a live experiment on human-robot interaction.

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Robots + Humans = ?

What’s the future of human-robot interaction?

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Humanoid Robots

Are they the future? Or do they set up an unreasonable expectation?

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How to Start a Robot Revolution

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Robotics isn’t the only field undergoing a revolution. Meet the people advancing artificial intelligence.

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Open Source and the Future of Hardware

Brian Gerkey
CEO, Open Robotics

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Open Source and the Future of Hardware

Brian Gerkey
CEO, Open Robotics

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Self-driving cars are a prime example of robotics in action. See why they’re also key in furthering the field of A.I.

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