Willow Garage History
Scott Hassan founded Willow Garage in late 2006 to accelerate the development of non-military robotics and advance open source robotics software. Named as an homage to the garages that spawned the computer industry, he envisioned an innovative research lab infused with the engineering expertise of a product development company. The goal was simple: to push the frontiers of robotics, both scientifically and commercially. Scott put together a funding package with the unique goals of impact first, return on capital second, with the strong belief that success in the first goal (impact) would provide plenty of opportunities to excel at the second (return on capital).
Highlights
Here are some highlights from our blog:
- March 1, 2010 - ROS Distributions: Box Turtle Release
- March 1, 2010 - PR2 Beta Program Video
- February 1, 2010 - Lots of Texas Robots
- January 22, 2010 - Milestone 3 Complete
- January 22, 2010 - ROS 1.0 Released
- January 15, 2010 - PR2 Beta Unveiled, Call for Proposals
- November 09, 2009 - Texas Robot on ABC 7 News
- October 26,2009 - Texas Robot First Prototype
- September, 2009 - code.ros.org launched
- August 20, 2009 - ROS.org launched
- August 13, 2009 - Towards Milestone 3
- July 2,2009 - Milestone 2 Explained
- June 19,2009 - PR2 Sensor Head
- June 03,2009 - Milestone 2 Reached
- April 22,2009 - PR2's fine motor skills
- February 10, 2009 - Lots of ROS Repositories
- February 10,2009 - ROS 0.4 released (first stable release)
- December 12,2008 - Milestone 1 Reached
- November 11,2008 - PR2 Alphas Have Arms
- October 17, 2008 - First PR2 Alpha Pictures
