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Robotics

Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware 'Cobots' Are Coming To Make Our Lives Easier

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that designed Roomba, a line of robots that zip around homes and clean dirty floors. Today, he’s still dreaming up clever ways to make robots do our dirty work — but in factories rather than living rooms.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2017

A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based computer that grows as it computes? Go figure!
 

 

This Is What We Call A Power Island!

[embed width="800"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI0sbiCNXtA&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

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Robotics

The Surprising Reason Why Robots Have Faces

Rodney Brooks
August 17, 2016

Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, introduced the concept of cost-effective and collaborative robotics in manufacturing with Baxter and Sawyer.

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Robots

Why Robots Aren’t a Real Threat to Jobs: Q&A With Rethink Robotics Founder Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks
July 29, 2016

Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, introduced the concept of cost-effective and collaborative robotics in manufacturing.  He explains why he believes robots like Rethink's Baxter and Sawyer won't endanger jobs.

 
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Robotics

Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages

April 11, 2016
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a poet, thought of robota, the Czech word for forced labor, and told Karel to call them robots.
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Boston

How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and Current to Digital and Healthcare employ almost 5,000 people in the city and surrounding area. But GE’s Boston roots go to the very beginning of the company. Our video and also our photo essay tell that story.
 

 
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Robotics

Jim Lawton: 3 Challenges for Manufacturing’s Innovation Age

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
April 03, 2016

At the intersection of mind and machine, manufacturing is poised for transformation. Here are three challenges industry faces in order to capitalize on advances in robotics and the Industrial Internet.

 
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Robotics

Buddy Bots: These Robots Will Free Us From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor

December 09, 2015
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end and answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a robot called the Guardian. It's part of a system of airborne, sea-and-land-based robots GE is developing to autonomously check locomotives and other industrial assets for damage, unusually high temperatures and other abnormalities. They are trained to raise the red flag when they see something amiss.
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Robots

Jim Lawton: When Humans and Robots Work Together

Jim Lawton Chief Product And Marketing Officer At Rethink Robotics
October 20, 2015

How collaborative robotics is accelerating the next industrial revolution.

When you hear about innovative technological advances that are reshaping industries, chances are you aren’t thinking about a factory floor. Not much has changed there since the first industrial robots were deployed in the 1960s — until now.
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Perspectives

Meet Sawyer, the One-Armed Collaborative Robot

Scott Eckert Rethink Robotics
May 01, 2015

Rethink Robotics CEO Scott Eckert talks about the potential for smart, collaborative robots to solve the labor cost and labor shortage problems in manufacturing.

 

Humans have been fascinated with robots and automatons for millennia —  or, at least, since Talos, the mythical bronze giant made by the Vulcans that guarded Crete.
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