/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/unbounded-robotics-announces-its-first-robot-the-35-000-open-platform-ubr-1Willow Garage is a company known mostly for its robotic hardware and open source software. Their most famous project has been the PR2 Robot. Although this was a highly advanced robot, the price and size of the bot was a little too much for most compaen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/unbounded-robotics-announces-its-first-robot-the-35-000-open-platform-ubr-1Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:02:12 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7574f682-39a7-4818-b45e-d6b6af7d0e07DAB0<p>At those prices I am not sure what their market support is going to be.</p><p>They are too expensive to risk in dangerous jobs, too small to build up a useful application around and too slow to be of much use as a mobile device.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I could see them used in advertisement and demonstration projects, but I will be interested in who buys them and where they put them to work.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The robots do establish an initial market pressence, so it will be interesting to see who competes against them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16889&AppID=36&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">