http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/Just imagine if this ESA one gets up there too. I envision a fight to the death, with the poor astronauts as collateral damage.]]>Jul 12th 2007 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/Jul 12th 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/
(Robotic torture technician in the foreground) BWAA HAAA HAAAAAA!]]>Jul 12th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/Jul 12th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/
Well, technically that is only somewhat correct... Although it is true that it has more joints than we do, it doesn't have more degrees of freedom than out arm... human arms have 7 degrees of freedom, even though we have fewer measured joints (our shoulder, for example, has 3 degrees of freedom - front back, up down, and rotation). So technically, having 7 joints doesn't guarantee more movement than our arms... except that our joints can't do things like rotate 360 degrees, and this one may be able to... But yeah, as far as degrees of freedom goes, we's the same. ;)
-Taylor]]>Jul 12th 2007 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/
By the way, How do you simulate a weightless environment for a huge metal contraption. Do they put a dozen water wings on his many jointed arms? In that picture there doesn't appear to be any flotation added. Maybe his arm cavities, are hollow and filled with air...]]>Jul 12th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/Jul 12th 2007 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/
Also, the NBL is only 40 ft deep. In a scuba diving class I took a few years ago I learned that every 33ft the pressure increases by one atmosphere meaning 40 ft doesn’t produce a huge pressure difference. Also the robot must have sealed, and rigid air capsules on it in order for the water pressure to have any effect…]]>Jul 13th 2007 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/esas-three-armed-space-robot-passes-weightless-test/Jul 13th 2007 12:30AM