Dextre telerobot comes back

http://news.discovery.com/space/robo...pair-nasa.html

On Feb 28, 9:48 am, Andrew Nowicki
wrote:
http://news.discovery.com/space/robo...pair-nasa.html

Thanks! I'd also be interested in a backgrounder on the tools
developed for the last Hubble mission ... I seem to have overlooked
that information at the time.

/dps

NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year
to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station.
Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General Motors
under a cooperative agreement to develop a robotic assistant that can
work alongside humans, whether they be astronauts in space or workers
at GM manufacturing plants on Earth.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-SJyS18lA

"Andrew Nowicki" wrote in message
...
NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year
to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station.
Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General Motors
under a cooperative agreement to develop a robotic assistant that can
work alongside humans, whether they be astronauts in space or workers
at GM manufacturing plants on Earth.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-SJyS18lA


General Motors was involved in it? No wonder it didn't work.

Alan Erskine wrote:
"Andrew Nowicki" wrote in message
...
NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year
to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station.
Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General Motors
under a cooperative agreement to develop a robotic assistant that can
work alongside humans, whether they be astronauts in space or workers
at GM manufacturing plants on Earth.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-SJyS18lA


General Motors was involved in it? No wonder it didn't work.

Hmm, I think this is related to a project my former girlfriend worked on
while in college.

I'll have to ask her about it.

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Greg Moore
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