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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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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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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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Meet Sawyer, the One-Armed Collaborative Robot

March 24, 2015
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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