Baxter, industrial and research robot, Rethink Robotics GmbH, Bochum, Germany

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Manufacturer - Rethink Robotics GmbH (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?1887)

Baxter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_(robot)) on Wikipedia

Baxter Rubiks Cube Solving (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?6301)

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https://youtu.be/1yoXkPKYChc

Baxter the robot ready to go

Published on Mar 13, 2013


Matt Fitzgerald of Rethink Robotics demonstrates Baxter, an adaptive manufacturing robot, to potential clients during the Association for Advancing Automation's convention in McCormick Place in Chicago, on January 21, 2013. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune)

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https://vimeo.com/91394612

Rethink Robotics Baxter intro
from Eikon Mobile
April 8, 2014

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https://youtu.be/LOn5WoTnkQU

Baxter Research Robot Speaks Out

Published on Apr 22, 2014


Active Robots has developed a program that shows the Baxter Research Robot from Rethink Robotics introducing itself: Integrating a Text-to-Speech engine with the Baxter Research Robot Software Development Kit to allow the Baxter Research Robot to communicate with us more effectively. Here the robot lets us know a little bit about itself, including its unique compliant joint architecture and how it can be used in Manufacturing, Academic and also Corporate Research & Development.

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https://youtu.be/8aDZH5uHvYY

Tom Strong meets the Baxter Research Robot by ReThink Robotics at Active Robots

Published on May 3, 2014


Here is the Baxter Research Robot -- I am very impressed with the wide range of capabilities that Baxter offers at an affordable price.
I am glad to find out that several British Universities already have this excellent research resource.

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Magic Robot Project (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?6491), Marco Tempest, New York, USA

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https://youtu.be/7B_Op4gSLvc

Robot makes an ice cream when you talk to it

Published on Jun 30, 2014


Full story: "Make robots useful by teaching them to talk like us (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25804)"

by Aviva Rutkin
June 27, 2014

Teaching robots how to handle the complex ways that humans communicate will make them better at dealing with our requests -- or asking for help

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https://youtu.be/w60nf585a34

Baxter Robots performing to "Happy" song by Pharrell Williams

Published on Jun 19, 2014


Mod and Sim students teamed up to create this fun video of the Baxter Robot by ReThink Robotics, working happily to their favorite song.

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Article "Baxter the robot brings his gentle touch to novel jobs (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329793.700)"

by Hal Hodson
July 23, 2014

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https://vimeo.com/107725829

Interpreting Multimodal Referring Expressions in Real Time
from David Whitney
October 1, 2014


Robots that collaborate with humans must be able to identify objects used for shared tasks, for example tools such as a knife for assistance at cooking, or parts such as a screw on a factory floor. Humans communicate about objects using language and gesture, fusing information from multiple modalities over time. Existing work has addressed this problem in single modalities, such as natural language or gesture, or fused modalities in non-realtime systems, but a gap remains in creating systems that simultaneously fuse information from language and gesture over time. To address this problem, we define a multimodal Bayes’ filter for interpreting referring expressions to objects. Our approach outputs a distribution over the referent object at 14Hz, updating dynamically as it receives new observations of the person’s spoken words and gestures. This real-time update enables a robot to dynamically respond with backchannel feedback while a person is still communi- cating, pointing toward a mathematical framework for human- robot communication as a joint activity [Clark, 1996]. Moreover, our approach takes into account rich timing information in the language as words are spoken by processing incremental output from the speech recognition system, traditionally ignored when processing a command as an entire sentence. It quickly adapts when the person refers to a new object. We collected a new dataset of people referring to objects in a tabletop setting and demonstrate that our approach is able to infer the correct object with 90% accuracy. Additionally, we demonstrate that our approach enables a Baxter robot to provide back-channel responses in real-time.

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https://youtu.be/QOBlcSQw12c

Baxter at Work - Application Examples

Published on Nov 5, 2014


Baxter is on the job. Check out this compilation of Rethink Robotics Baxter working in various applications from across the country!

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https://vimeo.com/78864945

An Amish Man
November 7, 2013

Amish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish) on Wikipedia

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https://youtu.be/FsHGfqgpjwE

Final projects in "Introduction to Robotics" at CU Boulder, Fall 2014

Published on Dec 12, 2014


3-DOF Visual Servoing, decapping a bottle, picking up golf balls, shaking hands, mimicking motions, and shooting targets using the Baxter robot.

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https://vimeo.com/114438212

Part sorting by weight
December 13, 2014


A Baxter robot sorts objects based on their weight. The weight of each object is estimated from measured joint torques, and then the objects are sorted according to their relative weights. The objects are numbered according to their weight.

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https://vimeo.com/113988641

Kendo Robot - Fightback
December 8, 2014


This is a video demo of our project "Kendo Robot". The project is a part of the course EE125/215 at University of California Berkeley. Fall semester 2014. Project team: Ingrid Kugelberg, James Lam, Jiewen Sun.

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https://youtu.be/Pjty_HaNpdQ

Baxter Out Of The Box

Published on Mar 9, 2015

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https://youtu.be/7Wm93rHRXlM

Published on Mar 25, 2015

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https://youtu.be/S6qHqro6f_A

Baxter Robot Learning to Pour into a Moving Container

Published on May 22, 2015


A demonstration of Baxter learning to pour correct amounts of liquid into a moving container. This shows how our learning model is able to very quickly adjust to new task variations (specific volumes of liquid).

Full title:
Generation and Exploitation of Local Models for Rapid Learning of a Pouring Task on a Moving Platform

Authors:
Joshua D. Langsfeld and Krishnanand N. Kaipa and Satyandra K. Gupta

Maryland Robotics Center
University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA

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https://youtu.be/k4Z2ohcr3WI

Baxter Robot Assisting in Software Testing

Published on May 27, 2015


A ONExia Software Engineer put one of our Baxter robots to work this week to assist in a long term software test for one of our custom machines. During the 2 hour test Baxter was used to simulate the operator interaction. This allowed our engineer to work on something else while Baxter pushed the trays for the duration of the test.

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"Clearpath Puts Baxter on Wheels, Announces Ridgeback Mobile Base (https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/clearpath-puts-baxter-on-wheels-announces-ridgeback-mobile-base)"

by Evan Ackerman
May 26, 2015

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https://youtu.be/UXa7gvw5wQ8

BAXTER Taught-In Activity

Published on Sep 24, 2015


A very first demo of our new Baxter robot using taught-in trajectories to manipulate some object. Not much state-of-the-art science in this one, but a feasibility study of what's possible with off-the-shelf components.

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"Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours (https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06825)"

by Lerrel Pinto, Abhinav Gupta
September 23, 2015

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https://vimeo.com/142385588

Collborative Robot and Omega Design's Intelli-Pac
October 14, 2015


Omega Design had some help in its booth at the 2015 Pack Expo in Las Vegas, NV. This video shows how Omega's staff worked alongside a collaborative, two-armed, humanoid robot named Baxter to case pack bottles. Baxter served a functional role to draw attention to Omega's all-new Intelli-Pac, a serialized case packing solution with integrated labeler, case former and case taper that was built on a fully mobile uni-frame. In addition, Baxter helped raise awareness of the potential role of robots within the packaging industry.

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https://youtu.be/jh3pQ4RRPaw

Baxter's Day Out

Published on Nov 16, 2015


The Social Robotics Lab takes Baxter home after a successful visit to Professor Brian Scassellati's CS50 lecture @ the Yale Law School.

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"Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge (https://robohub.org/brown-university-wins-inaugural-rethink-robotics-video-challenge)"

by Rethink Robotics
December 16, 2015

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Article "Making Robots Talk to Each Other (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539806/making-robots-talk-to-each-other)"
Robots that can work together and communicate are not only more efficient, they’re cheaper—since not every robot has to excel at every task.

by Julia Sklar
August 4, 2015

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https://youtu.be/95ev8BxPepM

Published on Jun 3, 2016


DE NIRO --- Design Engineering's Natural Interaction Robot

This is the first robot in the new Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London.

The robot is a member of ROBIN Lab (Robot Intelligence Laboratory) lead by Dr Petar Kormushev (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?15035).

DE NIRO is based on a Baxter robot produced by Rethink Robotics that will be modified for conducting research on robot learning.