Co-working robots like Baxter promise a future for home robotics | The Verge Seite 1 von 8 EDITORIAL Co-working robots like Baxter promise a future for home robotics By Paul Miller (http://www.theverge.com/users/futurepaul) on September 21, 2012 03:30 pm Email (mailto:
[email protected]) HEADLINES Gamemaster Howard Kickstarts 'Know-It-All' app Tesla provides free charging for $100,000 Model S 'Planetside 2' developers My favorite new vocabulary word for the year is "co-working," when applied to reveal engineer class robots. In June I spoke with Dr. Oskar Von Stryk from the University of Darmstadt (http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/7/3287515/robocup-2012-robots-soccer-broken- necks-baby-steps) , who explained the category to me. Little did we know, Rethink US cable companies to trial Robotics was just months away from introducing streaming video games this "Baxter," (http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/18/3351164/baxter-production-line-robot) year, says Bloomberg a machine which epitomizes the co-working robot — and which will likely rule the category for the foreseeable future. Google expands global reach with Nexus 7 launch A co-working robot is an industrial robot in Japan designed for smaller businesses, and less rigorous tasks. Instead of welding BAXTER WON'T GET LATEST MEDIA car doors, co-working robots do simple BORED manipulation of objects — like picking VIDEO 90 Seconds on The Verge: them up, and then putting them Monday, September 24th, 2012 (video) somewhere else. Imagine multiple buckets of specific Lego pieces, which need to be about 6 hours ago 1 comments picked and placed into a single kit of diverse Lego pieces, or a mailer which needs four different pieces of paper inside of it.