Improving robot interactions with the environment

I want to know if they tested the robot's skull egg crushing gripper without the plastic bag first, or if that was a scientific development discovered during the research process. Also, do the bags have any effect on the performance of the gripper?

They also have some interesting information about using human turks to train robot vision classifiers. I am sure the Augmented Reality crowd can make some use of the cv-web-annotation-toolkit sometime in the next few months.

Willow Garage also has an RSS feed for their blog so now it is easier than ever to keep up with their research.