Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer (left) and Baxter collaborative robots.
Rethink Robotics，位于马萨诸塞州波士顿的合作机器人Baxter和Sawyer的制造商今天关闭了大门。根据Crunchbase的数据，Rethink成立于2008年，迄今为止筹集了近1.5亿美元。这是最后一轮资金是2017年8月的1800万美元系列E。
Rethink Robotics首席执行官Scott Eckert通过电子邮件确认了这一消息The Robot Report.
“I can confirm that unfortunately the news is true, Rethink Robotics closed its doors today,” Eckert writes. “We were pioneers and innovators in the industry and responsible for the creation of the collaborative robot category, but unfortunately we didn’t quite achieve the market success we had intended. We have been helping our team find new homes and have been overwhelmed with interest. It’s a world-class group of people will continue to do great things in their next endeavors.”
But this is tough news for robotics community, of course. Rethink, which was founded in 2008, has been an important part of growing the collaborative robotics market. Founder Rodney Brooks and Ann Whitaker, Rethink Robotics sold the cobot concept so thoroughly that it’s now an important, growing segment of the robotics industry.
We last heard from Rethink Robotics, which was once known as Heartland Robotics, in July 2018 when it announced it wasadding seven distributorsthroughout the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Unfortunately, those distributors didn’t have much time to sell the Rethink concept.
This story is developing and will be updated if we learn more.
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