The Baxter robot is emblematic of the new wave of collaborative robots ou cobots.

The research and education version of the Baxter robot

The Baxter robot offered here is the research and education version, which differs from the "manufacturing" version only in its embedded software. The main difference is that the research and education version of the Baxter robot comes with a ROS-compatible SDK, while the manufacturing version is equipped with production software developed by Rethink Robotics.
This collaborative robot offers many advantages as a support for many research or educational projects. It can be used in fields such as human-robot interaction, collaborative robotics, planning, object recognition and manipulation, computer science, cognitive science, and many more.
It also constitutes a solution of choice for the design of the factory of the future and as such, is particularly suited to the R&D departments of companies wishing to investigate this area of ​​collaborative robotics.

Advantages of the Baxter robot

• Safe: it does not need to be isolated in a cage and can work with humans in their immediate environment.
• Easy to use: Baxter was designed with service robotics technologies and getting started and programming the Baxter robot using the ROS SDK is easy.
• Very advantageous in terms of price: from the outset, the Baxter robot was designed with a very low price objective without compromising quality. The selling price of the Baxter robot is half that of a comparable traditional solution.

Included accessories: 

• An electric clamp of variable size
• A pneumatic gripper (by suction)