Willow Garage is gearing up for the start of their PR2 Beta Program, having recently received the final proposals.  It’ll still be a little while before we know what institutions are getting a free robot, time enough to get just a little more hyped about this project and what it will mean for the community:

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and one more (Mirror):

[source: Willow Garage @ YouTube] & [ROS.org]