Give your phone the finger with this creepy, versatile robotic attachment – Digital Trends

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GM cobot pioneer: lessons to learn from Rethink Robotics

In the mid-1990s, I led the industry/academia team at General Motors that built the world’s first collaborative robots. It was hard work; most people even in robotics had not heard of a “cobot” (or, “intelligent assist devices” (IADs) as we referred to the broader category), knew what it was, much less how it could be…

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