Rethink Robotics today announced that its Sawyer robot, the company's second smart, collaborative robot designed for a wide range of factory environments, is available for purchase and is being deployed by manufacturers across the globe. Announced in March, Sawyer [ http://snip.ly/2gKq ] is a single-arm, high-performance robot created to handle machine tending, circuit board testing and other precise tasks that have been difficult to automate with existing robots. [Sawyer] offers a unique combination of features that distinguish it from other conventional and collaborative robots, including compliant motion control, embedded vision with a built-in Cognex camera and Rethink's Robot Positioning System, a component of the proprietary and industry-leading Intera software platform [ http://snip.ly/WjoY# http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/intera/ ]. Powering both Sawyer and Rethink's first collaborative robot, Baxter [ http://snip.ly/q4Z1# http://www.rethinkrobotics...