Baxter Overview

Baxter is the flagship product of Rethink robotics. It is a humanoid, anthropomorphic robot that sports state-of-the-art sensing technologies, including force sensing at every joint, cameras that support vision guided actions, built-in user interface, non-contact human presence detection and more.

Baxter comes in two variants. The standard Baxter product comes preloaded with a manufacturing application that allows Baxter to work in a manufacturing setting with behavioral-based robotics. Baxter loaded with the Research SDK is based on the same hardware platform, but allows researchers to develop their own custom applications on the robot.