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Re:Will Baxter be the Model T of the robotics industry? by marshallp on Saturday September 29, 2012 @01:51AM (#4588931)
Speed isn't the main aim of this. Industrial robotics has an arms race in speed and precision but this is instead a beginning of an arms race in "common sense" abilities, robots that can do the work of humans without specialized programming. It already seems to operate at human worker speed.
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Re:Will Baxter be the Model T of the robotics industry? by eatmorekale on Saturday September 29, 2012 @01:15PM (#4590178)
It probably depends on the task, but from the videos I've seen Baxter seems an order of magnitude slower than a human worker. It looks like Baxter takes several seconds to manipulate an object, but the workers sorting fruit in this video, for example, are doing several manipulations per second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6dKf8MZ-RM&feature=playe...

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Re:Will Baxter be the Model T of the robotics industry? by waterlesscloud on Saturday September 29, 2012 @02:08AM (#4588953)
Lots of basic repetitive tasks are economically viable to robotize when the robot costs $22k. This should be interesting.
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