Friday, November 1, 2013

Stepping Out Of The Lab: Steve Cousins’ New Robotics Company

<p>Exclusive for Forbes At the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, several of the leading voices in robotics, including Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics, and Steve Cousins, former CEO of Willow Garage gathered to have a candid discussion about the future of robotics.</p><p>Steve Cousins, Founder &amp; CEO, Savioke</p><p>Cousins, also the creator of ROS (Robot Operating System), an open source software that's become the de facto standard in modern robots, announced his new robotics company, Savioke. He won't go into a lot of detail, but he did say the company is focused on service robotics.</p><p>Now that Willow Garage has effectively been dispersed into its eight spin offs, Cousins told Forbes he wants to continue to work towards opening up service robotics particularly to those with disabilities, seniors and older adults. Savioke wants to deliver easy-to-use, yet sophisticated robots that help people, in other words autonomous helpers for the service industry.</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2013/10/30/stepping-out-of-the-lab-steve-cousins-new-robotics-company/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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