The robots that fill factories and put together cars are dangerous, difficult to operate and out of date, says Rodney Brooks, cofounder of iRobot and now Rethink Robotics. He's building a better one — ...

What’s red, stands 6-foot-3 when on a pedestal, has two arms and a big smile, and can work 24/7 without ever taking breaks for coffee or the bathroom? Baxter, the collaborative robot, of course.

Baxter is being deployed to complete two applications at Cornell Dubilier. In the first instance, Baxter works on the line to load and unload a conveyor that places a label on each capacitor.

Rethink Robotics has a neat robot called Baxter that could change the way production lines are set up. It uses a behavior-based approach to its internal programming and in can use a by-example user ...

An industrial robot can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just for the hardware. It can cost three to five times more to add it to an assembly line and get it working. That’s why industrial robots ...

Boston startup Rethink Robotics thinks its new humanoid factory worker is so low-cost and easy to set up that it could change U.S. manufacturing. Crave spoke to Rethink founder Rodney Brooks. Crave ...

Cobot and Baxter. CMU researchers are studying how the robots Cobot and Baxter can work together to complete tasks. It’s been a couple years since we have seen CoBot, one of the many robots being ...

One of the big hits on the exhibition floor at this year's BIOMEDevice Boston conference has been the Baxter robot made by Rethink Robotics. The robot is designed for a wide range of manufacturing ...

Slowly, but surely, the Baxter robot is learning. It starts as a series of random grasps — the big, red robot pokes and prods clumsily at objects on the table in front of it. The process is pretty ...

You don't have to tell the Baxter robot that it's doing something wrong. You Just have to think it. whoopsies, meet Baxter, a very expressive bot. Baxter has a simple task. Put a can of spray paint or ...

While robotic systems have revolutionized assembly, they traditionally haven't been so good at collaborating with others, meaning non-robotic human workers. In fact, it is often dangerous for people ...