GRASP Lab's PhillieBot throws out first pitch

Congrats to the GRASP Lab's PhillieBot for throwing out the first pitch at a Phillies Game! PhillieBot is the creation of Professor Vijay Kumar, Jordan Brindza, Jamie Gewirtz and Christian Moore. It features a Barrett arm on a Segway base and it runs ROS. They worked on several modifications to the Barrett arm to get up to pitching speeds, though the Phillies requested that they limit the pitch to a mild 30-40mph.

From awesome quadrotors to modular robots to the PR2 Beta Program, the GRASP Lab is doing some impressive work with ROS.

More information:

• Singularity Hub: Robot To Throw Out First Pitch Today At Phillies Game
• ESPN: PhillieBot to crank out first pitch
• Penn: GRASP robot to throw out first pitch at Phillies game