Baxter breaks out

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2979, 2014, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Baxter is an industrial robot with a twist. It is designed to work right next to humans on factory floors. Launched in 2012 by Boston-based Rethink Robotics, founded by pioneering roboticist Rodney Brooks, hundreds of Baxters already work on assembly lines and packing stations in factories across the US. But Baxter is now stepping out of the factory and into quirkier projects. The robot isn't opening peanut butter jars for kicks, but at the behest of David Whalen, who was left quadriplegic as a young man following a skiing accident in 1981. Whalen is working with John Wen of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY to turn Baxter into a mobile assistive robot.