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In their first steps towards this unifying system, the two built the [[PR1 (robot)|PR1]] as a hardware prototype and began to work on software from it, borrowing the best practices from other early open-source robotic software frameworks, particularly switchyard, a system that Morgan Quigley, another Stanford PhD student, had been working on in support of the STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2019/01/16/stanfords-robot-makers-andrew-ng/ |title=Stanford's Robot Makers |date=16 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stair.stanford.edu/papers.php |title=STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project |year=2008 |publisher=Snowbird Workshop|last1=Ng|first1=Andrew|first2=Stephen|last2=Gould|first3=Morgan|last3=Quigley|first4=Ashutosh|last4=Saxena|first5=Eric|last5=Berger}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stair.stanford.edu/|title=STAIR|website=stair.Stanford.edu|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last1=Quigley|first1=Morgan|title=STAIR: Hardware and Software Architecture|url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2007/WS-07-15/WS07-15-008.pdf|year=2007|publisher=AAAI 2007 Robotics Workshop|last2=Berger|first2=Eric|last3=Ng|first3=Andrew Y.|author3-link=Andrew Ng}}</ref> by the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]]. Early funding of US$50,000 was provided by [[Joanna Hoffman]] and [[Alain Rossmann]], which supported the development of the PR1. While seeking funding for further development,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Keenan Wyrobek|date=2017-07-03|title=Personal Robotics Program Fund Fundraising Deck from 2006|url=https://www.slideshare.net/KeenanWyrobek/personal-robotics-program-fund-fundraising-deck-from-2006}}</ref> Eric Berger and Keenan Wyrobek met Scott Hassan, the founder of [[Willow Garage]], a [[technology incubator]] which was working on an autonomous SUV and a solar autonomous boat. Hassan shared Berger and Wyrobek's vision of a "Linux for robotics", and invited them to come and work at Willow Garage. Willow Garage was started in January 2007, and the first commit of ROS code was made to SourceForge on 7 November 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/ros/code/10/log/?path=|title=Repository: code|website=Sourceforge.net|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>
=== Willow Garage (
[[Willow Garage]] began developing the PR2 robot as a follow-up to the PR1, and ROS as the software to run it. Groups from more than twenty institutions made contributions to ROS, both the core software and the growing number of packages which worked with ROS to form a greater software ecosystem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ros.org/wiki/Repositories|title=Repositories|work=ROS.org|access-date=7 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Quigley-ROS">{{cite web|url=http://www.robotics.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/icraoss09-ROS.pdf|title=ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System|last1=Quigley|first1=Morgan|last2=Gerkey|first2=Brian|access-date=3 April 2010|last3=Conley|first3=Ken|last4=Faust|first4=Josh|last5=Foote|first5=Tully|last6=Leibs|first6=Jeremy|last7=Berger|first7=Eric|last8=Wheeler|first8=Rob|last9=Ng|first9=Andrew|author-link9=Andrew Ng}}</ref> That people outside of Willow were contributing to ROS (especially from Stanford's STAIR project) meant that ROS was a multi-robot platform from the start. While Willow Garage had originally had other projects in progress, they were scrapped in favor of the Personal Robotics Program: focused on producing the PR2 as a research platform for academia and ROS as the open-source robotics stack that would underlie both academic research and tech startups, much like the [[LAMP (software bundle)|LAMP stack]] did for web-based startups.
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