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The stock PR2 does not have force sensors on the joints.

The effort mentioned is the estimated force based on the motor current for that joint. The motor and mechanism models are quite good, so the estimated forces are pretty good. The motor control boards are effort-based, so controller output is generally a commanded effort.

In your second link, the joint efforts are referred to as joint torques; the variable in question is tau_