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Remaining Willow Garage employees move to Suitable Technologies

By Frank Tobe | August 22, 2013

In a surprising move, Scott Hassan, CEO of Suitable Technologies, and previous CEO of Willow Garage, has hired most of the remaining employees of Willow Garage leaving only a support staff for their PR2 robots at Willow.

Suitable Technologies’ Beam costs $16,000.

The new employees will further product development, sales and customer support for the Beam product line.

No information was provided about whether the $250,000 PR2 would continue to be developed.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.