Willow Garage and Its Legacy
Willow Garage is no longer doing research and development in personal robotics. Its mission is being carried on by companies its people have created:
- Savioke - creating robots and software to help people (savioke.com)
- Open Source Robotics Foundation - supporting open source software for robotics (osrfoundation.org)
- Unbounded Robotics - building mobile manipulation platforms (unboundedrobotics.com)
- Suitable Technologies - remote presence solutions (suitabletech.com)
- hiDOF - ROS Consulting (hidof.com)
- OpenCV Foundation - supporting open source computer vision (opencv.org)
- Open Perception Foundation - supporting open source 3D perception software - PCL (openperception.org)
- Redwood Robotics - low-cost, high-performance robot arms (redwoodrobotics.com)
- Industrial Perception - using perception to guide industrial robots (industrial-perception.com)