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As I understand it, ReThink Robotics' main selling point is to do with co-working (having a robot sensitive enough to work side-by-side with a human safely). T
by mdda 13y ago
As I understand it, ReThink Robotics' main selling point is to do with co-working (having a robot sensitive enough to work side-by-side with a human safely). The trainability is another point (but there are a lot more issues to deal with than poses : In particular, their robot must identify the position of the thing to be picked up by sight).
But the thing that is really disruptive (in the actual Christensen sense) is their price-point ($22k) - waaay below that of most industrial robots.
OTOH, while the Baxter is very cheap and flexible, at the moment it isn't very capable. But that will change, I'm sure. And that's the essence of a genuine disruptive technology.
- hardwaresofton 13y agoRight, this is true. However, I think trainability is a more important point. As humans get phased out of manufacturing, co-working will be less and less important. However, simplifying the way that you train a robot -- letting someone who has the domain-knowledge move it's arms around and produce the correct functionality -- seems much more important, in the short and long term. I wonder if there are any other features of their robot that I am missing that could me be more important. I agree, price is what's really amazing there -- and I'm assuming that this guy has created a prototype that can be scaled up, and I think it'll be even less than $22,000.