Collaborative robotics are transforming the manufacturing shop floor and ushering in a new era in factory automation. Join us as Jim Lawton, Chief Product and Marketing Officer for Rethink Robotics shares how they’ve brought technologies like compliant motion control, embedded vision and advanced AI together; removing today’s industrial bots from the cage and placing them directly on the line to work interactively with people. Flexibility and versatility have been redefined so listen-in to learn how robots Baxter and Sawyer are bringing this revolution to a variety of manufacturers, large and small.
Episode 79: Industrial Robotics
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Lewis Weiss
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