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The quickly evolving field of robotics will face numerous challenges in a near future. Engineers and experts such as Rodney Brooks , the visionary who made vacuum robots popular, are now putting all theur knowledge and efforts into the creation of collaborative robots. They need to be affordable, easy to use, adaptative and safe for[…]
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On October 10th, the University of California, San Diego, hosted within its walls the « Contextual Robotics Technologies International Forum ». Rodney Brooks, the founder of Rethink Robotics, and creator of the collaborative Baxter robot , was joined by 8 of the world top leaders in the field of ubiquitous consumer robotics to discuss the[…]
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Rodney Brooks is hailed as one of the most important roboticists in the world who led a career as a famous and distinguished researcher in artificial intelligence at Stanford university, Carnegie Mellon and MIT. After co-founding iRobot in 2008, he leaves the latter and the academics world to create his company Heartlands robotics, considered as one of[…]
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RoboBusiness Europe 2014, is an international convention for robotics which took place this May in Denmark in the beautiful city Billund, right next to the original Legoland amusement park. Of course Generation Robots could not resist to be present at this event, so we packed our loved Baxter robot , called “Bob”, and traveled to[…]
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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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Europe is gaining traction as a genuine alternative for robotics manufacturers and innovations. After attending Innorobo 2014, the largest European tradeshow in March 2014 , Génération Robots will feature at another major robotics event, RoboBusiness Europe 2014 , occuring from 26th until 28th May 2014. If you’re unsure whether you should attend it or not,[…]
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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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RoboCup 2014, which is to robots what FIFA World Cup is to humans, will start soon and there’s still time to get teach your programmable humanoid NAO to play soccer! Teaching NAO play soccer tutorial made by experts HumaRobotics engineering team and Génération Robots like to contribute to the NAO owners community so they decided to[…]
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The fourth edition of Innorobo has just finished in Lyon, featuring more than 300 different robots, ranging from industrial to service robots. Among these robots, some robots are halfway between industrial and service robots, we call them cobots or collaborative robots.
Génération Robots and HumaRobotics are present at Innorobo, the largest European service robotics tradeshow. This event is a chance to meet our coolest robots and even try Double from Double Robotics, an unseen robot in Europe.
