BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Sep 18, 2012) - Ushering in a new era in robotics, Rethink Robotics today unveiled the world's first humanoid robots capable of applying common sense behavior to ...

Six years ago, Boston-based Rethink Robotics went out of business trying to sell industrial robots that could work in collaboration with humans. But Rethink is back. The once-hyped company, now owned ...

When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen. Currently the Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus at MIT, he also co-founded three key companies, including ...

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

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One of the big hits on the exhibition floor at this year's BIOMEDevice Boston conference has been the Baxter robot made by Rethink Robotics. The robot is designed for a wide range of manufacturing ...

The renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has revealed how he believes humanoid robots will develop in the coming years, and his suggestions may surprise you. Brooks, an AI pioneer and entrepreneur known ...

As technology advances and robots learn new tricks like folding laundry, it makes people wonder, is my job safe? That is the name of an NPR series that looks at how tech is changing our work, and ...