Willow Garage

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Willow Garage

Industry	Robotics
Founded	2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California
Key people	Scott Hassan (Founder) Steve Cousins (CEO) Eric Berger (Co-Director, Personal Robotics Program) Keenan Wyrobek (Co-Director, Personal Robotics Program) Brian Gerkey (Director, Open Source Development)[1]
Website	www.willowgarage.com

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 best known for its open source software suite Robot Operating System (ROS), which rapidly became a common, standard tool among robotics researchers upon its initial release in 2010.^[3] It was begun 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.^[6][7] Willow Garage's website, however, remained open until April 20th, 2021.