Abstract :
"Everything is a mess," Rodney Brooks says, as we make our way through a brick-walled room filled with robots in various states of assembly here at Rethink Robotics\´ headquarters in Boston. The mess, we should point out, makes Brooks, the company\´s founder and CTO, very happy. It means things are busy. The past few weeks, he says, have been particularly hectic. That\´s because today Rethink is making its collaborative factory robot Sawyer available for purchase.