(Adept Technology: Pleasanton, CA) -- Adept Technology Inc., designer, manufacturer, and provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and autonomous mobile services, has announced a collaboration with Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications, to deliver solutions for manufacturing and industrial applications harnessing the strength of Willow Garage’s Robot Operating System (ROS) software framework with Adept’s proven industrial robotic solutions. The two Silicon Valley-based companies along with Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization, are contributing to the ROS-Industrial project to combine the reliability of proven industrial robotics with the inherent flexibility of open source software.

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