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		kineticfocus on Dec 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Acquires Boston Dynamics With all these companies listed I'm surprised Willow Garage didn't join up with Google; given that the founder was a googler.

krschultz on Dec 14, 2013 [–]

In effect, they did. Willow Garage was restructured into Redwood Robotics. Google purchased Redwood Robotics. There are certainly lots of messy details, but the key projects (ROS & OpenCV) and the engineers from Willow Garage are now at Google.

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