***A 16-member Dexterous Robotics Team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in*** [***Houston***](https://metro.co.uk/tag/houston/)***, Texas, is developing hardware and software that could allow robots to operate reliably in some of the most hostile environments imaginable.***
***NASA insists the machines are intended to*** [***work***](https://metro.co.uk/tag/work/) ***alongside astronauts rather than replace them.***
***Advanced robots could repair equipment, move supplies, inspect spacecraft, and maintain extraterrestrial bases while keeping humans out of harm’s way.***
resh78255 on
I’m sorry NASA, I’m afraid I can’t do that
Savedacat_saveplanet on
Interesting they are taking this on themselves instead of outsourcing
Sislar on
I’m sorry Dave I can’t open the airlock. You have 27 mins of air remaining.
adamwho on
Why humanoid? The human shape is not the best shape to do exploration or work.
People need to stop basing engineering on science fiction. Tropes
rookieseaman on
Why do these highly specialized machines need to be shaped like people? Seems like a lot of wasted money to make a humanoid shaped machine.
Zwangsjacke on
How would they keep dust out of their joints and the astronauts from trying to have sex with the robots?
corobo on
Ooh I’ve seen this one! No but seriously of all entities to make robots, NASAs will probably be the least evil.
IbanezUniverse90 on
Hey I’ve seen this one. This one’s a classic.
air_and_space92 on
This is such a stupid article. JSC has been developing humanoid robotics for decades now. It’s not a new thing.
>Robonaut B was introduced in 2002, R1B is a portable version of R1. R1 had several lower bodies. One of these was the Zero-G Leg, which if Robonaut was working on the space station he would climb using the external handrails and then use his zero-g leg to latch onto the station using a WIF socket. Another was the Robotic Mobility Platform (RMP), developed in 2003, it is a base with two wheels using a Segway PT. And the four wheeled Centaur 1, which was developed in 2006. Robonaut has participated in NASA’s Desert Research and Technology Studies field trials in the Arizona desert.
>In 2006, the automotive company General Motors expressed interest in the project and proposed to team up with NASA. In 2007 a Space Act Agreement was signed that allowed GM and NASA to work together on the next generation of Robonaut.[^([11])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut#cite_note-Fact-11)
^(>)In February 2010, Robonaut 2 (R2) was revealed to the public.
>Valkyrie, also known as R5, is a humanoid robot developed by NASA. Its design and development started in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. The primary objective was to create a robot capable of supporting future NASA missions, whether by performing tasks in advance of human arrival on other planets or by serving as an assistant to human teams during missions. […] A prototype of the robot was completed in July 2013.
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It seems rather likely that the future of space exploration will be done at scale by non-organic things. Space is just too hard On biological creatures. If we are really building Moon bases, etc. It seems like that’s a great use case for robotics to prepare habitats that we can actually exist in.
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when i was at johnsonville i saw an older version of Valkyrie
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***A 16-member Dexterous Robotics Team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in*** [***Houston***](https://metro.co.uk/tag/houston/)***, Texas, is developing hardware and software that could allow robots to operate reliably in some of the most hostile environments imaginable.***
***NASA insists the machines are intended to*** [***work***](https://metro.co.uk/tag/work/) ***alongside astronauts rather than replace them.***
***Advanced robots could repair equipment, move supplies, inspect spacecraft, and maintain extraterrestrial bases while keeping humans out of harm’s way.***
I’m sorry NASA, I’m afraid I can’t do that
Interesting they are taking this on themselves instead of outsourcing
I’m sorry Dave I can’t open the airlock. You have 27 mins of air remaining.
Why humanoid? The human shape is not the best shape to do exploration or work.
People need to stop basing engineering on science fiction. Tropes
Why do these highly specialized machines need to be shaped like people? Seems like a lot of wasted money to make a humanoid shaped machine.
How would they keep dust out of their joints and the astronauts from trying to have sex with the robots?
Ooh I’ve seen this one! No but seriously of all entities to make robots, NASAs will probably be the least evil.
Hey I’ve seen this one. This one’s a classic.
This is such a stupid article. JSC has been developing humanoid robotics for decades now. It’s not a new thing.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut)
>Robonaut B was introduced in 2002, R1B is a portable version of R1. R1 had several lower bodies. One of these was the Zero-G Leg, which if Robonaut was working on the space station he would climb using the external handrails and then use his zero-g leg to latch onto the station using a WIF socket. Another was the Robotic Mobility Platform (RMP), developed in 2003, it is a base with two wheels using a Segway PT. And the four wheeled Centaur 1, which was developed in 2006. Robonaut has participated in NASA’s Desert Research and Technology Studies field trials in the Arizona desert.
>In 2006, the automotive company General Motors expressed interest in the project and proposed to team up with NASA. In 2007 a Space Act Agreement was signed that allowed GM and NASA to work together on the next generation of Robonaut.[^([11])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut#cite_note-Fact-11)
^(>)In February 2010, Robonaut 2 (R2) was revealed to the public.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_(robot)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_(robot))
>Valkyrie, also known as R5, is a humanoid robot developed by NASA. Its design and development started in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. The primary objective was to create a robot capable of supporting future NASA missions, whether by performing tasks in advance of human arrival on other planets or by serving as an assistant to human teams during missions. […] A prototype of the robot was completed in July 2013.
It seems rather likely that the future of space exploration will be done at scale by non-organic things. Space is just too hard On biological creatures. If we are really building Moon bases, etc. It seems like that’s a great use case for robotics to prepare habitats that we can actually exist in.
when i was at johnsonville i saw an older version of Valkyrie