softwareNerd Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Interesting article about a guy from MIT who created a robot that could do simple task, and did not cost a million dollars. Meet Baxter. One routine job that’s still done by hand at Vanguard is packing parts. Coming off one of the presses are small, textured, plastic cups, which Vanguard sells for 2 cents apiece to a medical company to package liquid medicines. A worker from a temporary agency, earning $9 an hour, stacks the cups, then flicks a plastic bag over the stacks. This is the job that Baxter will be trying out for when Rethink delivers a modified version of the robot, due at Vanguard for a field test this winter. Budnick says if he can eliminate one temporary worker—thus earning back his investment in a single year—he’ll buy Rethink’s robot. Regardless of all that happens in the world of politics, real progress continues. Harrison Danneskjold and dream_weaver 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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