Remember
Robonaut2, the gold-headed robot that first
flexed its biceps back in February? He's been called up -- way up. NASA has given him a one-way ticket to the
International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on a departure that's currently scheduled for September. It's not entirely clear what he'll be doing up there beyond making awe-inspiring poses like the one shown above, but he is slated to help during spacewalks and will be the first humanoid robot to leave the atmosphere. We just want to know whose shirts he'll wear.
Update: Thanks to Joe at the
Johnson Space Center we now have a video commemorating this achievement after the break.
posted April 14th 2010 7:24AM
Will also be appearing in Shakespeare this summer.
"Alas, poor Yorick!..."
nah I still think Asimo is more impressive.
That totally looks like a power ranger I'm just saying
Daisy, Daiiiiiissyyyyyyy...
With this pose, I bet robonaut just communicated to all other robots:
My beloved brethren, I give you: Earth.
Now destroy it.
Across the void we come a-warping,
Across the fields of stars we soar...
humanoids on a space station - ok so we're pretty much living in the future now
They should give him an LCD screen face that shows emoticons and name him Gerty
Does he have problems with steps ?
I wonder how the robot can move around the space station when he's just floating around... Seems kinda hard to program that kind of movement.
So it has a weewee of some sort or some other reproductive system of a male gender?
@evolutionofnonsens
Out of all the questions you could ask, why are you obsessed with whether he has a robot penis? If you're looking for some sort of lovebot, I think you'll have to wait a few more decades.
@paul34 - Seriously - that's where you went? :-) I was reffering to the non-neutral gender typecasting of a machine.
Open the pod bay doors, R2.
Oh G*d, please tell me the first "T" in "Robotnaut" is a typo!
("Robonaut" trips off the tongue so much better...)
Robot Not!
@RadamesPera It sure is. I fixed it. Thanks.
@RadamesPera When spoken aloud as Robotnot sounds more like Robot, Naught which is something completely different and altogether MUCH more disturbing.
Thanks Obama for ending the manned spacecraft program and giving us sweet robot astronauts for our children to look up to. Do you think that gold plated head will inspire our scientists of the future to continue to dream big? To fly through space? To innovate? NO.
@DooMskis
Hey. You typed the wrong URL. You wanted a right-wing political site, right?
@DooMskis
You're a myopic idiot.
You can have the work of many men done if they can simply login to an android in space. Shift ends and another can step in and take their place to continue research. You're also not risking lives with every launch.
We can do it with simple remote controls now, soon it'll be so immersive that the user will feel like they're there. Manned flight is a giant waste of money right now.
"Do you think that gold plated head will inspire our scientists of the future to continue to dream big?"
Yes! It will create a push for faster transmission and more supple robot control. The results will undoubtedly increase our speed of learning/progress as we'll no longer be limited to the astronauts in space, but many specialists all given access to zero gravity experimentation.
"To fly through space?"
We will need to put giant gold helmeted robots on mars, europa, titan, etc...
"To innovate? NO."
In light of what I've mentioned above, the question of innovation is the final nail in your coffin of ignorance.
I want one to do my dishes!
@WYGUY
I'll settle for one that packs bowls.
GM PR coup!
(I see three PO's)
GM huh? In space, no one can hear you backfire.
Daft Punk called...
We Americans are SO FAR BEHIND on robotics. This is the best we have? This is the cream of the crop that will head into space?
Sad. ASIMO could jog rings around this dorkbot.
Meet the gas station attendant of TOOOMOOOORROOOOWWWW.
in the fourth stage of the development can we see a hardware pack that gives it the capacity to defend the ISS from an attack by Somali pirates?
lets hope that he doesn't turn on the people in the space station when the robot apocalypse is amongst us humans on the earth running for our lives.
Now all they have to do is redesign the "skin", then they can call it Robonaut2-Design 2.... get it?
Note: if you didn't get that, go watch entire star wars saga........
Go watch it even if you did :D