Baxter the Manufacturing Robot

[madfranks]

This robot can do anything a human can do with his hands, but 24/7/365. One of these robots costs about the same as one minimum wage worker's annual salary.

http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/baxter/


For decades, manufacturers have had very few cost-effective options for handling low volume, high mix production jobs. No longer. Meet Baxter – the safe, flexible, affordable alternative to outsourced labor and fixed automation. Leading companies across North America have already integrated Baxter into their workforce, and gained a competitive advantage for their business in the process.



Baxter is a proven solution for a wide range of tasks – from line loading and machine tending, to packaging and material handling. If you walk the floor of your facility and see lightweight parts being handled near people, you’ve likely just found a great job for Baxter. This smart, collaborative robot is ready to get to work for your company – doing the monotonous tasks that free up your skilled human labor to be exactly that.

[Shami-Amourae]

Yep. Automation.

[Hitch]

McBaxter. Coming to your local burger joint.

[Horn]

And the chinese part warranty only lasts 6 months.

[Glass]

why does it have a screen with eyes? Does it server a purpose or is it for human comfort?

[madfranks]

And the chinese part warranty only lasts 6 months.

If it only lasts 6 months people aren't going to buy it.

[Horn]

Arm Length to End Effector Plate
41″


http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/baxter/tech-specs/



No way can he reach the fry bin and the ice cream dispenser from a fixed position, and then also guard the register.

This is a hoax-bot

[Glass]

glad you think that Horn because I was thinking the same. Doesn't look real. Some kind of lego bot.

[midnight rambler]

and then also guard the register.

Why would there be a cash register??

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7266/6934683726_a828d3897f.jpg

[Santa]

Poor Baxter...will one day weep hydraulic fluid all over the Mcmeaninglessness of his servile existence.

[Glass]

whats going to happen when someone goes off in the McDonalds?

Can Baxter morph into this?
http://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=88362&d=1256695889

I think he can.

[aeondaze]

There one big hole in the "automation is going to make us redundant" meme.

When consumers have no jobs, the is no money for consumption and no need to have robots manufacturing shit.

If and when the manufacturing singularity occurs it will then be the end of our consumerist society and therefore make the very machines that made it possible redundant.

Don't forget, the whole system is driven by consumption, destroy that (like we're seeing now) and the whole system comes to a screeching halt.

There is no escaping this paradox. Period.

I know , I know, the 1%ers will still consume and need robots. Really, will they? They run things like banking and finance, they have no real interest in manufacturing and besides they may have a lot of cash but they sure as shit cannot make up for the consumption of billions of peons.

As I said, there is NO escaping this paradox.

[Hitch]

When consumers have no jobs, the is no money for consumption and no need to have robots manufacturing shit.

Unless they want to thin the herd out a bit, with chemtrails, flouride, gmo's, big pharma meds, media pushing violence, race wars, false flag events, etc.

[Horn]

Baxter has no interest in crack cocaine imported by the CIA, he is expendable.

[aeondaze]

Unless they want to thin the herd out a bit, with chemtrails, flouride, gmo's, big pharma meds, media pushing violence, race wars, false flag events, etc.

Which in that case there is no need for mass automated manufacturing -----> Back to the manufacturing singularity paradox.

[mick silver]

We are no longer needed to service the rich one's , They know now they can build the world they want with less ... wait and see woods as far as the eyes can see places for them to hunt , lay around doing nothing , fish when they want , sex when they want . They know that they no longer need all the people that are in the world .When you already have every thing you could ever want why would the next step not be to thin the herd so you can have Utopia . if I was a betting man i would say they have made plans for this many many moons ago .A utopia is a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities.