Founded by CTO and Chairman Rodney Brooks in 2008, Rethink Robotics, Inc. is a Boston based company. Being a new kind of Robotics Company, Rethink Robotics has a mission to produce a new type of manufacturing robot. It aims at creating robots that uses common sense to carry out a wide variety of tasks and significantly improve productivity.
The company created Baxter, the first robot in the world with common sense to increase efficiency and productivity in manufacturing environments. Rethink’s Baxter is an affordable, safe and easy-to-use collaborative robot that is improving the efficiency of manufacturers, making their workers more productive, and keeping jobs from migrating overseas.
Rethink Robotics believes that corporate and educational research teams should have affordable and easy access to a robotic innovation platform to bring their vision to reality.
