Baxter Overview - RethinkRobotics/sdk-docs GitHub Wiki

Baxter is the flagship product of Rethink Robotics. Baxter is a humanoid, anthropomorphic robot sporting two seven degree-of-freedom arms, and state-of-the-art sensing technologies, including force, position, and torque sensing at every joint, cameras in support of computer vision applications, integrated user input and output elements such as a head-mounted display, buttons, knobs and more.

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Baxter comes in two variants:

  • The Baxter Manufacturing Robot delivered pre-installed with our manufacturing oriented software, allowing Baxter to work seamlessly in manufacturing settings. The datasheet for the Baxter Manufacturing Robot may be found here.

    • Please Note: While the hardware platform for this robot and the Baxter Research robot are similar, parts of the datasheet refer to the standard manufacturing software running on Baxter and do not apply to the Baxter Research Robot.

  • The Baxter Research Robot installed with the Research SDK (RSDK) allows researchers of all backgrounds to develop custom software for Baxter.

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Overview of the Baxter Research Software Developers Kit (RSDK)