Robonaut 2 heading for the ISS

[Evildead666]

Robonauts Nasa website :

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/default.asp

The mission

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/ISS/

He has a twitter account would you believe

Got the info from Dailytech here :

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=20050

They are joking about R2 name, close to R2D2, why not call it 'Bishop' ?

[Dr Mordrid]

NASA's Project M, which I posted about here....

Robonaut 2 and Project M are a follow-on to the original Robonaut, which was a torso-up humanoid robot to be used for remote-presence mainrenance of the exterior of yhe ISS. Know those white dots with a hole all over the outside of ISS? Attachments for hardware, including anchor pointe for Robonauts.

[Evildead666]

I knew you had a thread somewhere, its just as I understand it, R2's going up there on one of the next flights.

[Dr Mordrid]

There is one going to ISS on one of the last 2 shuttle missions and the bipedal version going to the Moon in a couple years. Should be interesting to see how well it maneuvers & if it can right itself if it falls.

[Technoid]

That thing reminds me of The Rocketeer