Rethink Robotics: Meet Baxter

Meet Baxter, a revolutionary new category of Robot from Rethink Robotics that is capable of applying common sense behavior to manufacturing environments. Affordably priced, versatile and safe enough to work shoulder-to-shoulder with people, Baxter robots redefine how small, mid-size and large domestic manufacturers use automation to compete with manufacturers in low-cost regions of the world.

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[Voudoo1]

They Took our jerbs!!!

[kabyzdoh]

Мне нравится ваше переживание за тех, кто выполняет тяжелую тупую физическую работу. Вас напрягает что часть такой работы можно будет чем-то заменить? Прогресс человечества всегда шел от тупой работы к более интеллектуальной, но всегда находятся те, кто в силу своей природной тупости вместо того чтобы облегчать людям жизнь, валят на них свои проблемы и лень. Одумайтесь.

[Nicholas Moore]

There's going to be a point where humans forget to do all this stuff, and then the robots will have to teach us, ha ha. I don't know if I should or not, but I adore these new advancements in technology, and for some reason, every time these intelligent people create these robots, there's always an innocent look to them, quite like animals or babies, that just makes me want to care about them, even if they don't have any concrete emotions.

[Red sunn]

THEY TOOK YER JEEB?!

[Baxter Foskuhl]

My name's Baxter! :D

[Mikael Murstam]

or 5. Don't underestimate the rate of progress...

[quadcatfly]

MYDAK

[Aba Daba]

He is slow as fuck. Lets wait another 20 years.

[frbe0101]

The only sectors left after service sector is the intellectual and speciality jobs: engineers, scientists, artists, lawyers, politicians and plumbers, electricians, inspectors. Most people can't do those jobs because they lack not just access to enough education but raw intelligence and skill. Worse those fields aren't or can't expand much. Right now they represent less then 9% of the job market, and would need to take in the 80% from the service sector by the end of the century!

[frbe0101]

Yep! That what is happening now. It is why the median income for average Americans is almost the same in adjusted dollars today as it was 50 years ago, yet why the owners of now highly automated industry (the so called 1%) have become SEVERAL TIME richer in the same time period. Service jobs of today generally don't pay like the manufacturing jobs of the past, and the service sector is starting to suffer loses to automation now.

[frbe0101]

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