The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Willow Garage: 1 model. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryHumanoids
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Regional ecosystem
Willow Garage is one of 433 verified robotics companies in California →
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Dissolved
Backerssee investors →
Technology
Scale
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Willow Garage has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Clearpath Robotics1× joint
Most recent
Willow Garage on the deployment map
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Relationships
Founders (1)
- Scott Hassancofounderno longer at company
previously at Beam
Former / Previously (5)
- Melonee Wise Robot Development Managersecondary-verified
- Steve Cousins CEOsecondary-verified
- Keenan Wyrobek Co-Director, ROS/PR2 Programsecondary-verified
- Mirza Akbar Shah Engineersecondary-verified
- Scott Hassan Founder, Willow Garagesecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Willow Garage.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Willow Garage in third-party press
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- wound_down
- Counterparty risk class
- high
- Going concern
- flaggedDefunct (2014).
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Willow Garage has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Clearpath Robotics1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Willow Garage x Clearpath Robotics (PR2 Support)withClearpath Roboticstechnology—concludedoperating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Willow Garage.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Willow Garage from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
From academia to industry and beyond - IFR International Federation of Robotics
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Willow Garage Introduces PR2 SE, Half the Arms at Half the Price - IEEE Spectrum
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Willow Garage PR2 Robot Now Plays Pool - IEEE Spectrum
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How I Became a Texai Robot and Went Partying - IEEE Spectrum
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Willow Garage Giving Away 11 PR2 Robots Worth Over $4 Million - IEEE Spectrum
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Willow Garage's PR2 Robots Graduate - IEEE Spectrum
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Wizards of ROS: Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System - IEEE Spectrum
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How a billionaire who wrote Google’s original code created a robot revolution - Business Insider
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Willow Garage Won’t Do Research Anymore, but It’ll Sell You a Robot - MIT Technology Review
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Willow Garage Changes Direction - The Robot Report
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UPDATED: Willow Garage to Shut Down? Company Says 'No, Just Changing' - IEEE Spectrum
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Personal robot that folds laundry, gets your beer? - SFGATE
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/willow-garage.md
- RSS feed: /companies/willow-garage/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/44b1654b-4be3-4c7b-abd5-3a822407fb68
- Revision history: /companies/willow-garage/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Willow Garage draws attention at the 7th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026