{"252751":{"#nid":"252751","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBuilding robots for these small and medium-size companies \u201cis a fantastic opportunity,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hichristensen.net\/\u0022\u003EHenrik I. Christensen\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor of robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, who\u2019s an expert in industrial automation. (He has no ties to Rethink.) There are many tasks, he says, that don\u2019t require the speed and precision of today\u2019s industrial robots, and these tasks are begging to be automated. \u2029\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-11-08 22:45:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:48","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/rethink-robotics-baxter-robot-factory-worker","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"78861","name":"Henrik I. Christensen"},{"id":"78811","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}