At Rethink Robotics, we believe that all manufacturers, regardless of size and technology experience, should have an equal opportunity to benefit from industrial robots. They should be affordable. They should be safe to operate around people. They should be easy to train and work right out of the box. And most of all, they should help U.S. manufacturers increase production while keeping jobs from migrating overseas.
Rethink Robotics is a new kind of robotics company, and our mission is to create a new kind of manufacturing robot. One that introduces robotics into processes that manufacturers have never been able to cost-effectively automate. One that uses common sense to perform a wide range of tasks and vastly improve productivity. And one that safely works side by side with its human counterparts, who are able to train it with no programming or engineering expertise.
Simply put, we are rethinking robotics. And we think you will, too.
Rethink Robotics’ has combined its Rethink Ryder autonomous mobile robot with a Rethink Reacher cobot and a portable battery box allows for mobile manipulation. All components...
Cobots are solving labor issues for manufacturers by automating tasks that can’t be solved by traditional industrial automation. Our robots get smarter, faster and more productive...
Baxter is a $22,000 robot from Rethink Robotics that performs repetitive tasks at modest speeds. Force-sensing technologies make it extremely safe for operation around human beings...
The use of collaborative robots in injection molding applications highlight their applicability in addressing real world labor shortages and providing fast return on investment...
From the value of ERP-to-controller connections to remote access and control, cybersecurity and collaborative robotics, discussions at the 2016 Automation Conference & Expo hit...
Suppliers say collaborative robots represent the disruptive automation that manufactures need to succeed in the future, but safety concerns still loom in the distance.
As the collaborative robot market continues to develop, one trend seems clear—these robots will have one arm for purposes of mobility and small space application.
Specific demands from a range of manufacturing industries are driving the rapid development of cage-free robots that can work alongside or in close proximity to humans. Here’s...
A number of drivers, ranging from high-profile investments in collaborative robot technology to FDA approvals of robot use, appear to bolster both near- and long-term growth prospects...
Though true lights-out production is still rare, more processes are running with limited human interaction. Variability, complexity, dexterity and danger shape decisions.
As collaborative robots enter the automation ring, don’t expect a big faceoff with industrial robot competitors. More likely, both will work side-by-side along with human workers...
New technologies are driving the return of manufacturing to the U.S. Though automation can reduce or eliminate certain types of factory jobs, it’s essential to make reshoring ...
Taking advantage of progress made in robotics in other fields, manufacturers are coming up with new ways to use the technology in industrial applications. Advances in healthcare...
Looking to add cost-effective automation to capacitor manufacturing with collaborative robots, Cornell Dubilier doubled labeling speed, improved inspection quality, and the efficiency...
In the second part of our series on collaborative robotics, find out what to expect as robots expand their roles into domains formerly reserved for humans.
