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Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm by Animats on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:18PM (#12654730)
Baxter is supposed to be safe around humans, but to achieve this, they had to make it weak and slow. So it underperforms competing industrial robots. Compare: Baxter and Sawyer: [1] Festo: [2].

It's also not precise enough for precision assembly. Baxter videos show it stacking medium sized parts, not assembling cell phones.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPth0Q4apLU [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_t_1-tl40

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Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm by Symmetry on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:24PM (#12655308)
In between you have stuff like Universal Robots' stuff which is human safe and relatively fast. For a startup knowing that the arm you're using isn't going to kill anyone[1] is huge in terms of being able to develop stuff quickly.

https://www.universal-robots.com/

[1] Or kill yourself with it, I've managed to hit myself in the head but didn't even get a bruise.

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