# Open Robotics: company

Canonical ID: `9ae7708f-8dec-460a-81fe-4aeac98763a8`

## Key facts

- **Focus:** Steward of the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo simulator
- **Stage:** Spun out of Willow Garage as the Open Source Robotics Foundation in 2012

- **Slug:** open-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **HQ:** Mountain View, CA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Brian Gerkey](/people/brian-gerkey.md) Co-Founder & Board Chair (former CEO) (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Brian Gerkey](/people/brian-gerkey.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

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_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (2)

1. https://www.openrobotics.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System

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