UBR-1 Robot From Unbounded Robotics Revolutionizes Affordable Mobile Manipulation
From IEEE Spectrum
By Evan Ackerman
Posted 21 Oct 2013 | 15:00 GMT
We’ve been following Unbounded Robotics, the final spin-off from Willow Garage, since we first learned of the company’s existence back in April. Unbounded has been working in stealth mode for the past year, but our best guess was that they were developing a low-cost mobile manipulator for research and education: something like a PR2, except (we were hoping) significantly cheaper. Today, Unbounded is unveiling UBR-1, a shiny new human-scale one-armed robot designed to completely revolutionize the market for research and education robotics and beyond, for just a tiny fraction of the cost of similar platforms.