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Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing

By Frank Tobe | October 7, 2013

UPDATE 10/06/13: CBS News highlights Baxter's $3/hr metrics in newscast showing Rethink Robotics' Baxter at work in plastics factory.

2 additional videos show how robotic startups are helping small and medium-sized shops and factories (SME's) compete in the global economy.

Universal Robots' video shows a 72-person short-run metal products maker using their new UR robot for CNC machine tending and also for loading and unloading a metal bender.

Rethink Robotics' shows how a 100-person plastics manufacturer is using a Baxter robot for various end-of-conveyor completion and packaging tasks.

Details and links to the videos in this article.

About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.