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by baalexander 5639 days ago
While the PR2 is beyond the reach of a hobbyist, the company's meta operating system ROS (http://www.ros.org) can be installed on any personal computer for free. You can run the same navigation, vision recognition, and other algorithms the PR2 uses (among other robots) on most capable computers.

And with the new AVR bridge (http://www.ros.org/wiki/avr_bridge), you can even interface the "hobbyist" Arduino with the OS.