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Willow Garage ROS 3D Contest
     



Are you working on combing 3D sensor technology with the Willow
Garage open source Robot Operating
System? It's not too late to get in
on the Willow Garage ROS 3D contest. Our friends at Willow Garage sent
us these details:

December was such a busy month at Willow Garage I didn't get a chance to
let you know about the ROS 3D Contest.  Willow Garage is offering $8,000
in prizes for participants that combine an RGB-D sensor (e.g. Kinect,
PSDK5.0) with ROS to produce something new, interesting, and fun.  The
contest ends on January 23. The combination of ROS and Kinect has proved
very interesting.  Kinect news coming out of CES might dominate the
headlines for the next week or so, but it's worth thinking about how
Kinect is catalyzing the open source world.

Tim also provided some links for more info on the Kinect and ROS and to all
the details on the ROS 3D contest. The video above offers some
interesting info on integrating ROS and the Kinect from Willow Garage
researcher Radu Bogdan Rusu.
   

http://robots.net/article/3085.html