Rodney Brooks

Type: Person

Name: Rodney Brooks

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Manufacturing Gangnam Style

Stacey Wagner, Manager, Workforce Systems Development, NIST MEPRethink Robotics, the firm that designed and manufactured Baxter the famous industrial robot, has met its match. Robotis’ Bioloid, an educational DIY robotics set, has developed a new, hipper ... [Published Manufacturing.net - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Robotics, Manufacturing, Automation, Rodney Brooks, Astronautics

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Smith & Wesson Holdings Corp

Globe 100 honors top Massachusetts companies in 25th anniversary edition

By Globe Staff,Executives of the best-performing companies featured in the 25th anniversary edition of the Globe 100 rarely bump into each other in the course of business.But those firms have something important in common -- they all produced record or ... [Published Boston Globe - May 17 2013]

Entities: Smith & Wesson Holdings Corp, Jonathan Tilly, Lars Albright

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

India's Sensex Rallies to Highest Level in More Than Two Years

- Here is the opening from this Bloomberg report, posted on SFGate:May 15 (Bloomberg) -- India's benchmark stock index jumped to its highest level in more than two years on speculation the central bank may lower banks' reserve-requirement ratios after ... [Published Proactive Investors.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Rodney Brooks, Robotics, India, Autonomous Vehicles, MSCI Emerging Markets Index

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

We're at ICRA 2013: The World's Largest Robot Research Conference!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> The 2013 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is taking place this week in Karlsruhe, Germany. We’ve been in Europe for a week or so checking out robotics labs (more on that when we get back), ... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 07 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Intelligence, Michael Black, Rodney Brooks

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Researchers

Rodney Brooks, founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics, revealed a number of surprising things when Evan and I visited the company last year, just before it unveiled its Baxter industrial robot to the world. There was the robot itself, of course, designed ... [Published Spectrum Online - May 07 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Rodney Brooks, Manufacturing, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Open Source

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Research Robot SDK Builds Custom Robot Apps

Boston-based Rethink Robotics has launched its Baxter Research Robot, a humanoid robot with two arms powered by a dedicated SDK designed to allow researchers to create an array of custom applications for robots.The Baxter Research Robot runs on ROS, the ... [Published Dr. Dobbs - May 01 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Rodney Brooks, Sonar

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Georgia Institute of Technology

Sense of Touch in Robot for Doing Extracting Task

As per a new research experiment, the former students of Dr. Rodney Brooks, a well-known roboticist unit, have developed a robot arm that moves and finds object by touch. The new findings got published in International Journal of Robotics Research, which ... [Published French Tribune - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Biomedical Engineering

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Rethink Robotics Launches Baxter Research ...

The new generation of humanoid robot has been designed to work side by side with technicians and researchers without safety cages. Rethink Robotics has announced a humanoid robot with two arms powered by a new Software Development Kit (SDK) that will ... [Published EFYTimes.com - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Rodney Brooks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 4 reports

Need a research assistant? Baxter the Robot is available

Remember Baxter the Robot? The $22,000 machine initially built for manufacturing applications can now be repurposed for research tasks, according to Rethink Robotics.Baxter’s advantages lie in its ability to “learn” tasks from a person who walks it ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Baxter International Inc, Rodney Brooks, Manufacturing, Software Development, Sonar

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.?

Maybe, but don’t look to ‘reshoring.’'I wouldn’t say there’s a huge onslaught of manufacturing returning from offshore,' says Leo W. Gerard, international president of United Steelworkers, the nation’s largest manufacturing union. 'It now appears to be ... [Published In These Times - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Manufacturing, Baxter International Inc, Robotics, United States

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Highland Capital Partners Seeking $400M New Fund

Boston-area venture capitalists have been busy raising money in recent months, and here?s one more to add to the list.Highland Capital Partners, based in Cambridge, MA,Â has filed paperworkÂ with the Securities and Exchange Commission that outlines its ... [Published Xconomy - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Highland Capital Partners, CURT WOODWARD, Robotics, Kyruus Inc, US Securities and Exchange Commission

First reported Feb 26 2013 - Updated Feb 27 2013 - 1 reports

Robots as part of daily life: Rodney Brooks at TED2013

We’ve heard a lot about robots at TED over the years. Demos of amazing specialized robots … talk about what robots can and can’t do … and will they take jobs from humans and is that a good or a bad thing? What’s missing is a concrete example of ... [Published TED Blog - Feb 26 2013]

Entities: Rodney Brooks, Robotics, Workers, Roomba

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Manufacturing Gangnam Style [Published Manufacturing.net - 15 hours ago]
Manufacturing Gangnam Style [Published IMPO - May 21 2013]
Globe 100 honors top Massachusetts companies in... [Published Boston Globe - May 17 2013]
India's Sensex Rallies to Highest Level in More... [Published Proactive Investors.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Charting technology’s new directions: A convers... [Published McKinsey & Company - May 11 2013]
We're at ICRA 2013: The World's Largest Robot R... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 07 2013]
Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Rese... [Published Spectrum Online - May 07 2013]
Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Rese... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 06 2013]
Why we often view digital culture through insec... [Published ArsTechnica - May 04 2013]
Why we often view digital culture through insec... [Published Wired.co.uk - May 03 2013]
Research Robot SDK Builds Custom Robot Apps [Published Dr. Dobbs - May 01 2013]
Sense of Touch in Robot for Doing Extracting Task [Published French Tribune - Apr 29 2013]
Researchers Put Sense of Touch in Reach for Robots [Published New York Times - Apr 28 2013]
Rethink Robotics Launches Baxter Research ... [Published EFYTimes.com - Apr 28 2013]
Need a research assistant? Baxter the Robot is ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 25 2013]
Need a research assistant? Baxter the Robot is ... [Published Earth2Tech - Apr 25 2013]
Need a research assistant? Baxter the Robot is ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 25 2013]
Need a research assistant? Baxter the Robot is ... [Published GigaOM Network - Apr 25 2013]
Xconomy Forum - Robots Remake the Workplace: Wa... [Published innovationSRI - Apr 25 2013]
Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.? [Published In These Times - Apr 25 2013]
Dedication Saturday for Whitlock Field [Published The Times-Herald - Apr 18 2013]
Highland Capital Partners Seeking $400M New Fund [Published Xconomy - Apr 17 2013]
Will Robots Create New Jobs When They Take Over... [Published Technology Review - Apr 16 2013]
Watching Boston's future play Legos at Cambridg... [Published Boston Business Journal - Apr 16 2013]
Industrial robots work, play nice [Published Toledoblade.com - Apr 14 2013]
The AARP is looking for some good Baby Boomer e... [Published GigaOM - Mar 26 2013]
The AARP is looking for some good Baby Boomer e... [Published GigaOM Network - Mar 26 2013]
What happens after the droids take our jobs? An... [Published TED Blog - Feb 27 2013]
Robots as part of daily life: Rodney Brooks at ... [Published TED Blog - Feb 26 2013]
Progress Enigma: The speakers in Session 1 of T... [Published TED Blog - Feb 24 2013]