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 ...

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The company that popularized collaborative robots (cobots) by adding a screen with a happy animated "face" will reopen for business. Rethink Robotics Inc. will relaunch itself at the 2024 ...

My favorite new vocabulary word for the year is "co-working," when applied to robots. In June I spoke with Dr. Oskar Von Stryk from the University of Darmstadt, who explained the category to me.

Why the Modist, Healthy.io, Instabeat, and others made the list this year. For Robots Like Baxter, The Interface Becomes A Personality Check out the videos, and you'll see why this robot is different ...

The man who invented Roomba, the robotic vacuum, is back — this time, with Baxter. Rodney Brooks, roboticist and entrepreneur, brought Baxter, his latest robot, to the TED conference in Long Beach, ...

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 ...