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://ow.ly/Sp2YZ) 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://ow.ly/Sp3NJ). Powering both Sawyer and Rethink's first collaborative robot, Baxter (http://ow.ly/Spb3W), the Intera system makes deploying the robots far easier than typical industrial robots. While traditional robots typically take an average of 200 hours to program and deploy, Sawyer can be deployed in un...

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