We’ve been following the evolution of the Willow Garage PR2 robot for a bit over a year now, watching as it learned to mooch electricity and hustle pool sharks. That, as it turns out, was only the beginning. The robots are now up for general pre-order should anyone want one (priced well into the ” when you have to ask” range, surely), and to celebrate that Willow Garage founder Scott Hassan publish $10k to sponsor a video contest of the PR2 robot performing some impressive things. The winner is a video called ” Sockification” from a crew at UC Berkeley wherein the PR2 shows some… enthusiastic sock sorting skills. You can find that one embedded below, in conjunction with our personal favorite: an ode to StrongBad and his lightswitch rave.
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