Baxter: Rethink Robotics Concepts

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s, read Brock’s article in IEEE Spectrum in 2013, he passed Shockley’s original 1951 memo around his company, Rethink Robotics, and asked his employees to guess when the memo had been written. No one came close. That memo predates by more than a half century

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, but at that point the robotics industry hadn’t even managed to successfully commercialize toy humanoid robots, let alone robots capable of practical applications. When Baxter was finally unveiled in 2012, Heartland had changed its name to Rethink, with the humanoid robot receiving mixed reviews. Not everyone understood or agreed with

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the robot a new repetitive task, humans only have to guide the robot’s arms through the requisite motions and Baxter will automatically memorize the routine. When the robot was introduced, Rethink Robotics demonstrated Baxter’s capability to slowly pick up items on a conveyor belt and place them in new locations. This seemed

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words

Versatile Robotic Worker Industrial Perception’s robot is a highly specialized machine focused specifically on moving boxes with maximum efficiency. Boston-based Rethink Robotics has taken a different track with Baxter, a lightweight humanoid manufacturing robot that can easily be trained to perform a variety of repetitive tasks. Rethink was founded by Rodney

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the store. A variety of educational robots focused on everything from encouraging technical creativity to assisting children with autism or learning disabilities. At the Rethink Robotics booth, Baxter had received Halloween training and was grasping small boxes of candy and then dropping them into pumpkin-shaped trick-or-treat buckets. There were also

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab · 11 Jan 2016 · 179pp · 43,441 words

-5 and 24-hour services – Hacking and cyber-risk The shift in action An article from The Fiscal Times appearing on CNBC.com states that: “Rethink Robotics released Baxter [in the fall of 2012] and received an overwhelming response from the manufacturing industry, selling out of their production capacity through April … [In April

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

by Jeff Sutherland and Jj Sutherland · 29 Sep 2014 · 284pp · 72,406 words

cleaner and uses the same adaptive intelligence to clean your floors that Genghis Khan used to chase me around my office. His latest innovation at Rethink Robotics, the Baxter robot, can work collaboratively with humans in a common workspace. I was inspired by Brooks’s work. And in 1993 I took those ideas

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee · 20 Jan 2014 · 339pp · 88,732 words

has great difficulty with jelly jars that don’t show up in exactly the same place every time. In 2008 Brooks founded a new company, Rethink Robotics, to pursue and build untraditional industrial automation: robots that can pick and place jelly jars and handle the countless other imprecise tasks currently done by

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at once; its two arms are capable of operating independently. Coming Soon to Assembly Lines, Warehouses, and Hallways Near You After visiting Rethink and seeing Baxter in action, we understood why Texas Instruments Vice President Remi El-Ouazzane said in early 2012, “We have a firm belief that the robotics market

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easy to master and use. Ultimately, those who embrace the new technologies will be the ones who benefit most.” —Rodney Brooks, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, Inc “New technologies may bring about our economic salvation or they may threaten our very livelihoods . . . or they may do both. Brynjolfsson and McAfee have

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words

artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different. Consider Baxter, a revolutionary new workbot from Rethink Robotics. Designed by Rodney Brooks, the former MIT professor who invented the bestselling Roomba vacuum cleaner and its descendants

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The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism

by Calum Chace · 17 Jul 2016 · 477pp · 75,408 words

output is getting cheaper, safer and far more versatile. A landmark was reached in 2012 with the introduction of Baxter, a 3-foot tall robot (6 feet with his pedestal) from Rethink Robotics. The brainchild of Rodney Brooks, an Australian roboticist who used to be the director of the MIT Computer Science and

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

by Thomas W. Malone · 14 May 2018 · 344pp · 104,077 words

person. Second, we may create robots that look like people just to satisfy our human desire to interact with humanlike creatures. For instance, Baxter is an industrial robot from Rethink Robotics designed to do the kind of physical tasks in factories that human workers do today. And it’s probably no accident that

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© Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab. Reprinted with permission. 13. Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman, “How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker,” IEEE Spectrum, September 18, 2012, http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/rethink-robotics-baxter-robot-factory-worker. 14. Robert Lee Hotz, “Neural Implants Let Paralyzed Man Take a Drink,” Wall Street

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.v. “artificial intelligence,” accessed August 8, 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence. 4. Rodney Brooks, “Artificial Intelligence Is a Tool, Not a Threat,” Rethink Robotics, November 10, 2014, http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-tool-threat. 5. David Ferrucci, e-mail message to the author, August 24, 2016. Ferrucci

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century

by Mark Walker · 29 Nov 2015

perfect but certainly much better at vacuuming than your average teenager. They also work cheaper and do not complain. Another example of robotic progress is Baxter from Rethink Robotics. Baxter is an industrial robot designed by Rodney Brooks, inventor of the Roomba robot. Let us consider the cost first. Unimate is usually credited with

The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)

by Terrence J. Sejnowski · 27 Sep 2018

even more floors. Industrial robots have stiff joints and powerful servomotors, which makes them look and feel mechanical. In 2008, Brooks started Rethink Robotics, a company that built a robot called “Baxter” with pliant joints, so its arms could be moved around (figure 12.3). Instead of having to write a program to