I just want to point out that the robot's operating system is open-source and runs on heaps of different robot platforms: http://www.ros.org/ http://www.ros.or

I just want to point out that the robot's operating system is open-source and runs on heaps of different robot platforms: http://www.ros.org/ http://www.ros.org/ The software is primary developed by Willow Garage, a start-up created by an ex-Googler that also has Larry Page on its board: http://www.willowgarage.com/ http://www.willowgarage.com/ You can actually simulate this specific robot and even write algorithms (in Python and C++ AFIAK) without having one: http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_simulator http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_simulator As you can probably tell, I really love how they're lowering the entry barrier for robotics programming!