#Scotts garage inc. software

#Scotts garage inc. software

In the Fall of 2008, Eric Berger and Keenan Wyrobek pitched Willow Garage on creating common hardware (PR1) and software Robot Operating System (ROS) platforms and the idea of creating a Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage. All four were recruited by Scott Hassan to work on Willow Garage's first projects which included an SUV entrant into the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007) and an autonomous solar powered boat for deploying scientific payloads in open oceans. Willow Garage hired its first employees in January 2007, Jonathan Stark, Melonee Wise, Curt Meyers, and John Hsu. Willow Garage's website, however, remained open until April 20th, 2021. Most employees were retained by Suitable Technologies, Inc, while the support and services responsibilities were transferred to Clearpath Robotics. Willow Garage was located in Menlo Park, California. 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. The company was most likely best known for its open source software suite Robot Operating System (ROS), which rapidly and widely become a common, standard tool among robotics researchers and industry, since its initial release in 2010.

Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. Keenan Wyrobek (Co-Director, Personal Robotics Program)īrian Gerkey (Director, Open Source Development) Eric Berger (Co-Director, Personal Robotics Program)