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The wait is over. Rethink Robotics introduced last week Sawyer for the Research and Education markets. Equipped with both the ROS system and a SDK (Software Development Kit), Sawyer for research and education will pave the way to innovations in fields like machine learning, human-robot interaction, mechatronics and grasping, machine vision and manufacturing skills. Sawyer[…]
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Rethink Robotics doesn’t sit on its laurels. Less than 6 months after the Intera 3.1 release, Sawyer robot’s manufacturer is announcing that Intera v3.2 is available for Baxter robot. As you know Baxter collaborative robots are available in two versions: Baxter research, a prototype of the collaborative robot for research purposes, available at Génération Robots,[…]
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Cognex In-Sight and Siemens S7 PLC Modbus Ros package and tutorial The modbus stack provided by the HumaRobotics team of engineers offers a wrapper from the modbus communication to standardized ROS messages. The modbus package is based on pymodbus and is also written in Python. This package was used in an industrial quality inspection project[…]
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Prof. Dr. ir. Bram Vanderborght, who leads the Robotics & Multibody Mechanics research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with prof Lefeber tells us more about his experience with the collaborative robot Baxter, and how Baxter can be a great pedagogical tool. Génération Robots : First of all, for all people who don’t know you,[…]
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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 alongside humans. This[…]
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Printing directly from a smartphone has become an everyday reality. Now, you can also use your smartphone to control your 3D printers! The revolution has begun… Available for iOS since last summer, the MakerBot app for controlling and managing a 3D printer from your smartphone was sorely missed by the (many) users of the Android[…]
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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 robots and[…]
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Generation Robots, who will be presenting the Baxter collaborative robot by Rethink Robotics is one of the 200 bâtisseurs pour demain who are going to assemble from 4 au 7 décembre 2014 in the central concourse of the Grand Palais. This event, organised at the initiative of Osons la France(France, let’s be daring!), will introduce the country’s future talents,[…]
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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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Baxter Tasker is a brand new ROS package intended for the Baxter Research Robot from Rethink Robotics has been released by our colleagues from Humarobotics. 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[…]
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