It was three years ago that we first heard about Rethink Robotics' Baxter industrial robot.

那是三年前，我们第一次听说反思机器人“巴克斯特工业机器人。”

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But he wanted to try to master an area of robotics that remains unconquered - adaptability, the ability of the robot to rethink its plans as the environment around it changes, as would a human.

当时他下那想精钻一个没有被征服的机器人领域——即适应性能力。即机器人可以根据其周围环境的改变而调整其计划的能力，就像人那样。

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Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".

BBC: Baxter the robot

Take the Baxter robot, which Rethink Robotics announced recently.

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Its makers, Rethink Robotics, say it can apply common sense, adapt to its environment and be trained in less than 30 minutes to complete specific tasks, by workers without robotic expertise.

BBC: Baxter the robot