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Sawyer, le nouveau robot collaboratif de Rethink Robotics

Meet Sawyer, the new collaborative robot by Rethink Robotics

Rethink Robotics yesterday unveiled its new collaborative robot, Sawyer, throughout the world Rethink Robotics , founded in 2008 by former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Rodney Brooks , is a pioneer in the field of collaborative robots. In 2012, Rethink Robotics launched Baxter , a revolutionary robot designed for working[…]
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Le nouveau SDK v1.1 supporte ROS Indigo

Release of the new SDK 1.1 for the Baxter robot

The Baxter robot’s SDK has been updated to version 1.1: you can now use the research version of the collaborative robot with the latest ROS release – Indigo! First you will need to install Ubuntu 14.04 on your workstation in order to make the very most of the latest version of ROS . Less than a year[…]
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Collaborative robots and traditional robots: 5 key differences

Collaborative robots , or “cobots” (contraction of “collaborative” and “robots”), are definitely a strong trend in today’s robotics developments. Out go the heavy, imposing robots locked in their cages for safety reasons, it’s time to make way for collaborative robots! This blog article will help you distinguish between these two types of robot : collaborative[…]
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Baxter robot found its marks thanks to Intera 3.1

Rethink Robotics announced on Nov. 3rd the availability of a new feature: “Robot Positionning system”. Baxter collaborative robot is now able to manage and adapt to a changing working environment. Intera 3.1, the latest software upgrade, the feature “Robot positioning system” allows to react more quickly to unexpected changes in a working environment such as[…]
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New ROS package: Baxter Tasker

Baxter Tasker is a brand new ROS package intended for the Baxter Research Robot from Rethink Robotics has been released by Generation Robots. Baxter Tasker gives an interface on both the controlling computer and on Baxter, created to set up a simple pick and place behaviour, while generating the Python code for it.Thus you can[…]
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New software versions for Baxter robot

A major software update for Baxter Research robot Rethink Robotics, collaborative Baxter robot manufacturer has just announced in a quick succession new manufacturing software and SDK releases for Baxter. Baxter has been created in two versions: a manufacturing one dedicated to manufacturing industry running on a software platform that you can program simply by handling[…]
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