Lazarus Archive · LZ-27798

Willow household assistant: firmware 3.6

Willow Robotics, 2017. Firmware for household robots.

Description

Firmware for a household assistant sold for home use from 2017, read from a unit retired by its owners.

Provenance

Deposited by Harbour Region Software Preservation Group, which had held it unread for years. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c7c1faf43de38ee34fdd470799ddf7925fafc96cb0477cc9f76cda8396529c02
Last verified
Sep 29, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ROBOT-2 · lz-mcu core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.

Cite as: Willow Robotics, Willow household assistant: firmware 3.6 (2017). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27798.

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