“To train Baxter, you grab it by the wrist and guide the arm through the motions you want it to carry out. As you do this, the arm seems weightless, its motors are working so that you don’t have to. The robot also maintains safety; the two arms can’t collide (the motors resist you if you try and make this happen) and they automatically slow down if Baxter senses a person within their range. Baxter has a few obvious advantages over human workers. It can work all day every day without This is Baxter, the humanoid robot needing sleep, lunch, or coffee breaks. It also won’t that made a memorable cameo in demand healthcare from its employer or add to the payroll tax burden. And it can do two completely the book The Second Machine Age unrelated things at once.” 90 Image courtesy of Rethink Robotics, Inc.