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Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI

Sabine Hauert 29 Aug 2018

If you follow the robotics community on the twittersphere, you'll have noticed that Rodney Brooks is publishing a series of essays on the future of robotics and AI which has been gathering wide attent...

Rethink Robotics raises another $18 million

Frank Tobe 12 Jan 2017

Rethink Robotics, the Boston-based maker of the Baxter and Sawyer robots founded by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks, raised an additional $18 million in an unfinished $33 million Series E round led ...

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200th Episode Special, with Rodney Brooks

Podcast team 22 Jan 2016

Transcript below. In this episode, we celebrate our 200th episode! That’s over 6000 minutes of robot goodness and nearly 8 years releasing interviews with your favorite roboticists. The podcast...

Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge

Rethink Robotics 16 Dec 2015

As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...

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...

January fundings are off to a great start!

Frank Tobe 02 Feb 2015

Rethink Robotics, Xenix, Rapyuta, Perceptron, Skydio, Sarcos and JIBO have all announced substantial fundings for a wide range of robotic ventures. Plus there are some new funders joining the fray....

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 ...

Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival

Andra Keay 10 Dec 2013

Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna. It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...

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....

Updated Robotics Roadmap presented to US congress

Frank Tobe 22 Mar 2013

Henrik Christensen, the KUKA Chair of Robotics at GA Tech and Chairman of the Roadmap project, Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics, Pete Wurman, CTO of Kiva Systems, and Russ Angold, CTO of Ekso Bi...

CBS News 60 Minutes provides new definition of robots

Frank Tobe 14 Jan 2013

CBS News Reporter Steve Kroft interviews Rodney Brooks at ReThink Robotics. Click on the image to see the segment. On Sunday, January 13, CBS News 60 Minutes reported on robots. Their focal po...

Filling a need… or feeding a diversion

Frank Tobe 02 Jan 2013

Today's robotics industry could use some strategic guidance, particularly in the area of healthcare. It is clear to me that the next big markets for robotics are: SMEs (robot...

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