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Robotics start-up Willow Garage believes open source OS will soon put robots in our homes

Tanja Aitamurto, VentureBeat03.15.2008
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willowgarage.jpg If Menlo Park-based start-up Willow Garage has its way, in just a few years you’ll be able to hire a robot to come and clean your house once a week. The company is building open-source robots and giving them away to university research groups in an attempt to fuel quick improvements to... (Read more)

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As Willow Garage designs its robots, it will need to think about what kinds of legal records the machines will make, retain and destory. --Ben


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