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2020 Buyer’s Guide for higher education (electrical engineering and computer science, engineering school, technical college, etc.) and researchers Using robots in a scientific or technical cursus encourages students to create programs for real-world applications. And it’s important that students are able to work with proper hardware. Robotics can be used to teach programming, machine learning,[…]
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Rethink Robotics just released a new update of Baxter SDK: Baxter Research Robot SDK 1.1.1. The company, which unveiled their new collaborative robot Sawyer in March, states that the Baxter SDK v1.1.1 is focused mainly on adding fixes to further stabilize the SDK with ROS Indigo. The Machine Sync I/O These changes were partly developed[…]
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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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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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Generation Robots was the company’s Rethink Robotics first global distributor of the Baxter Research Robot. The Baxter robot’s manufacturer has today rewarded our strong commitment by presenting us with the 2014 partner of the year award! Much of 2014 was devoted to the research version of the Baxter – the Baxter Research Robot – and[…]
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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 after[…]
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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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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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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 their[…]
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