Willow Garage
📍 Menlo Park, CAFounded 2006🔒 Private
About
Willow Garage was a pioneering robotics research lab and incubator that developed the PR2 personal robot and created ROS (Robot Operating System), the open-source software framework that became the industry standard for robotics development. The company made fundamental contributions to robot perception, manipulation, and navigation before ceasing operations in 2014, with its legacy living on through ROS and numerous spin-off companies.
Key Products
PR2 RobotROS (Robot Operating System)TurtleBot
