Willow Garage Continues to Advance Open Source Robotics

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2011

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“There are continuing efforts going on all around the world to
advance open source robot platforms–some focused on humanoid
robots and some not. We’ve covered the extraordinary open source
robotics work going on over at Willow Garage a number of times. It
is a project that originated at Stanford University. Robots being
developed within it run ROS (Robot Operating System) software, and
are surprisingly capable. Now, approximately 25 institutions are
developing robotics applications on Willow Garage’s open
platform.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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