Heartland Robotics, based in Cambridge, Mass., will focus on the manufacture of industrial worker robots.
“I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world’s labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost robots that will empower American workers,” Brooks said in a statement released on his personal Web site.
Rodney Brooks new work talks about “I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world’s labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost robots that will empower American workers” which is the same as Heartland Robotics. The new work is focused on the Obrero robot.
Obrero is a humanoid robot especialized in sensitive manipulation: manipulation that is as much about perception as action and is intrinsically responsive to the properties of the object being manipulated; manipulation that does not rely on vision as the main sensor but as a complement.
This work is being done by Eduardo Torres-Jara and supervised by Prof. Rodney A. Brooks.
FURTHER READING
There are currently over 1 million industrial robots in the world
Used industrial robot arms in the $9000-15000 range
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