#robonaut

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Image description: a humanoid robot (but only from the waist up) in a display case. The robot has a gold head that looks kinda like a motorcycle helmet with a black faceplate, one gold hand with three fingers and a thumb (the right one, the left is completely absent), gold joints in the shoulders, the NASA "meatball" logo and the GM logo side by side on its breast. The NASA meatball logo is the logo that is a round blue field of white stars with a red sideways V (called a chevron) across it.

This is a robonaut (specifically one of the Robonaut 2 or R2 models), designed for use on the International Space Station to do work deemed too dangerous for human astronauts. There is a camera hidden in its head to allow its operator to see.

I missed the sign on this one, so I'm not sure if this is a prototype or replica of the R2 that was sent to the ISS (that one is currently located at Udvar-Hazy in Northern Virginia alongside the shuttle Discovery, and the robot pictured above is definitely not there).

[best-bot-tournament-2023]

Qualifying Poll - NASA

Which of these real life robots would you most like to see in the tournament?

Choose Your Fighter.

Robonaut

Curiosity Mars Rover

Opportunity Mars Rover

Hubble Telescope

Voting ended onMar 4, 2023

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at the smithsonian air and space museum you will find a friend and good boy, called a robonaut

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‘’The core idea behind the Robonaut series is to have a humanoid machine work alongside astronauts. Its form factor and dexterity are designed such that Robonaut can use space tools and work in similar environments suited to astronauts.’’ |more|

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Can You Guess Which Football Signals Robonaut Is Doing?

Meet Robonaut, our humanoid robot (which means it’s built to look like a person). This makes it easier for Robonaut to do the same jobs as a person. 

Robonaut could help with anything from working on the International Space Station to exploring other worlds…and now he might even take up a job as a referee!

We had Robonaut act out a few football signals. Can you guess what they are?!

Signal #1

Signal #2

Signal #3

Signal #4

Signal #5

Signal #6

Signal #7

Signal #8

Signal #9

Get the answers:

But it’s not all fun and games for Robonaut...from performing movements like a referee to helping astronauts on the space station, it’s important to have a robot that can perform the same tasks as humans. Why?  

Robonaut could someday be tested outside the space station. This testing would determine how well Robonaut could work with, or instead of, spacewalking astronauts. Designers even have ideas for sending a robot like Robonaut to another world someday. If testing goes well, who knows where Robonaut - or a better robot based on Robonaut - could end up?

To learn more about connections between space and football, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/football   

To learn more about Robonaut, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/robonaut2 

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[altosynthesis]

Valkyrie

[altosynthesis]

天啊 🥹。

(書名是Principles of Robot Motion)

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Original Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39910453

R2，你是塊大麵包。