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title: "Willow Garage: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The company was best known for its open source software suite Robot Operating System (ROS), which rapidly became a common, standard tool among robotics researchers upon its initial release in 2010."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-willow-garage
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1540232
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage
website: http://www.willowgarage.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Willow Garage

> Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The company was best known for its open source software suite Robot Operating System (ROS), which rapidly became a common, standard tool among robotics researchers upon its initial release in 2010.

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## Facts

- Category: Robotics
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2006-01-01
- Headquarters: Menlo Park
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.willowgarage.com/
- Industries: robotics

## Key people

- Scott Hassan, founder (American computer scientist)
- Allison Huynh, founder (American entrepreneur)

## Coverage on the Monitor

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## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1540232, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage

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