Boston firm unveils latest in ‘collaborative robots’

A Boston robotics company has unveiled the latest in what it says will be a "family" of manufacturing robots that work alongside humans.

"We've always envisioned a family of smart, collaborative robots," said Jim Lawton, an executive with Rethink Robotics. "Sawyer is smaller, more compact, and easier to integrate into manufacturing."

Sawyer is the company's second manufacturing robot, and it is designed to automate routine, monotonous tasks including what's known as machine tending, which includes actions as simple as pushing a button and then waiting. Rethink's first robot, Baxter, can do the same thing, but it has two arms and is more suited for tasks such as packing and organizing.

"Sawyer's designed to do a whole new set of tasks," Lawton said. "We'll have Sawyers and Baxters operating next to each other, with each other."

Retailing for $29,000, Sawyer has one arm and the same friendly computer face as Baxter. Called "collaborative robots" by the company, Sawyer and Baxter can work next to humans, and are easy to teach and program by moving them and showing them what to do.

Sawyer and Baxter are part of Rethink's efforts to have robots rather than people do the mindless, boring jobs in manufacturing rather than people, and Lawton said Rethink is already working on its next robot.

"You'll see more people supervising robotics technology and less people doing these dangerous and repetitive tasks," Lawton said. "Instead of being the person standing in front of the test, I'm the person managing a dozen robots."

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