jan 1, 2006 - Willow Garage

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Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications.[2] The company was most likely best known for its open source software suite ROS (Robot Operating System), which has been rapidly and widely becoming a common, standard tool among robotics researchers and industry, since its initial release in 2010.[3] It was started in late 2006 by Scott Hassan, who had worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to develop the technology that became the Google Search engine.[4] Steve Cousins was the president and CEO. Willow Garage was located in Menlo Park, California.[5]

Willow Garage shut down in early 2014. Most employees were retained by Suitable Technologies, Inc, while the support and services responsibilities were transferred to Clearpath Robotics.

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