Baxter robots
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Also known as: Baxter
- An extra bit … In the real world, Baxter (2011) and Sawyer (below) from Rethink Robotics (acquired by HAHN in 2018) were industrial robots that were also designed to work alongside humans …
- My So-Called Content … Weirdly, I’m skim-re-reading Stephen Baxter’s Manifold trilogy at the moment, and in one of the books Venus gets de-spun by… using superconducting rings …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … Rethink Robotics, the company behind the deliberately anthropomorphized industrial collaborative robot Baxter and sibling-of-Baxter, Sawyer, has shut down because then you’d be feeling bad about …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … 1.0 GUT In one of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence science fiction universe[1], there's a thing called the GUTdrive[2], which means Grand Unified Theory …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … It's almost like a mating dance - I used to love the description of the language that Stephen Baxter used in his Phase Space/Time/Space/Origin collection …
- Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit … The insensitive SFnal geek in me is looking at this stuff - driverless cars, autonomous transport systems, whatever you want to call them, the moment that Kiva and Baxter …
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … that seeked to treat everything the same way, at the same time that Baxter is proven to be interesting precisely because it does not do everything the same …
- Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology … And when Rodney Brooks, Baxter's father, talks about the fact that humans find robots like Baxter disconcerting when they are *unable* to precisely reproduce motion and tasks …