Watch a video of Rodney Brooks entitled Remaking Robotics with Manufacturing.

Heartland gets 2nd round of financing with a vision to reinvigorate American manufacturing. Jeff Bezos’ venture arm was a major investor.

“Our robots will help revitalize this important sector of the economy by offering efficiencies and versatility where traditional industrial robotic solutions are cost prohibitive or insufficiently flexible” said Heartland’s Rodney Brooks.

Obrero robot was developed at MIT and is a humanoid robot focused on sensitive manipulation.