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Rethink Robotics finally get their mojo with Sawyer
Frank Tobe
28 Sep 2015
Rethink Robotics displayed their new single-armed Sawyer robot at the RoboBusiness Conference and Expo in San Jose on Wednesday. It was Sawyer's first public outing and the crowd of over 1,600 was pay...
Baxter goes to Oregon, to help bring robots to the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak
Open Source Robotics Foundation
17 Feb 2015
At the end of January, Baxter left OSRF for a stint in Corvallis, Oregon where he will be used in a project that is investigating the use of teleoperated robots in the treatment of highly contagious d...
2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
Andra Keay
09 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures[/tweetquote], which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to...
Rethink Robotics gets $26.6 million Christmas gift
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2015
UPDATED Jan 8: In an unannounced funding discovered by Boston Globe reporter Scott Kirsner, [tweetquote]Rethink Robotics sold equity and received $26.6 million a few days before Christmas[/tweetquote]...
Announcing the Winners of the IROS 2014 Baxter Contest! | Rethink Robotics
Hallie Siegel
04 Sep 2014
Luis F. C. Figueredo, from Automation and Robotics Lab. at the University of Brasilia (Currently working with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group in the CSAIL Lab at MIT). Luis came up ...
Rethink Robotics is downsizing
Frank Tobe
14 Dec 2013
Although Rethink Robotics is downsizing, their action is not indicative of the robotics industry, which is booming and hiring.
The Boston Globe reported that Rethink Robotics, maker of the $22,000 ...
Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing
Frank Tobe
05 Oct 2013
UPDATED: October 6, 2013
Small and medium shops and factories (SMEs) are an untapped marketplace for robotics but direly in need of automation to remain competitive in this global economy. Two ne...
Low-cost robots like Baxter, UR5 and UR10 successfully entering small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Frank Tobe
14 May 2013
Much has been said about the need to augment the skills and increase the productivity of small factory workers by using robotic assistants called co-robots. Europe funded an SME (Small and Medium-size...
Rethink Robotics introduces Baxter Research Robot
John Payne
26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics has announced the availability of a bundle, called the Baxter Research Robot, which includes their Baxter robot and a Software Development Kit, for US$22,000....
Henrik Christensen on “If you had a EUR 100M investment fund, into which robotics technology or field of robotics would you put your money?̶
Henrik Christensen
15 Jan 2013
Robots for manufacturing. Generating a new family of robots that have a
fluent interaction with humans. It will be easily programmable. Some would
argue that Baxter provides this functionality. Unfo...
Rodney Brooks speaking at the CMU Robotics Institute
John Payne
15 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/RDvgNB2OZxI
Speaking at CMU Robotics Institute as part of their RI Seminar Series, Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (originally Heartland Robo...
Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks
Podcast team
05 Oct 2012
Link to audio file (34:39)
Link to transcript
In today’s episode we speak with Rodney Brooks at the offices of Rethink Robotics about their first product Baxter, his ambition to revolutionize manu...
Rethink Robotics launches Baxter the Robot
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2012
Yesterday was the launch of Rethink Robotics' Baxter shop assistant robot.
Many reporters, including myself, saw Baxter at Rethink's headquarters in Boston in the past two months but were embargoed...
How Rethink Robotics built its new Baxter robot worker | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
19 Sep 2012
Like others who track robotics, we’d heard the rumors: Rethink was focusing on manufacturing; its robots would be so inexpensive every factory would be able to afford one; the robots would help make...
A Robot with a delicate touch
Andra Keay
18 Sep 2012
Researchers are developing less threatening machines that can mingle safely with humans. One, called Baxter, will be on sale in October.
See on www.nytimes.com...
Rethink Robotics: Baxter
Andra Keay
18 Sep 2012
Astute. Aware. Affordable. Not words commonly associated with robots. But Baxter, our flagship product, changes all that.
See on rethinkrobotics.com...
