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bednarz writes "Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage is busy developing. But the company isn't going it alone: Willow Garage is an open source project that wants as much outside participation as possible. One of its immediate goals is to build 10 robots and make them available to university researchers as a common platform that can be tinkered with and improved. Willow Garage will also supply "an open-source code base integrated from the best open-source robotics software available," President and CEO Steve Cousins said Wednesday at the O'Reilly ETech conference on emerging technology in San Diego. The start-up was founded by Scott Hassan, who helped Larry Page and Sergey Brin develop Google's technology."
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