The Heaphy Project: Crowdsourced Robot Servants and the Willow Garage Spin-off That Never WasWillow Garage, the now-disbanded Silicon Valley robotics incubator, unleashed some of the most impactful robot technologies of the past half-decade. Today, this formidable legacy lives on, in great part, through a host of Willow spin-offs that remain at the forefront of robotics. This article is not about them. It’s about a Willow Garage project that was, at one point, on the verge of being spun o
