Robotnaut 2 Being Activated Live on the ISS...

40,000 views so far, but only about 1000 watching now. So that's 39,000 people who opened it, were disappointed that the robot hadn't gone crazy, and closed it straight away.
 
I know this is totally O/T and a moot point for most, but I just had that feeling of:

"I'm watching something live, from space, via the Internet, in my house"

Anyway, carry on. This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing. :)
 
It's cool but it's odd to go to all the trouble of making a huminoid Robot to help with tasks but then it can't operate in a vacuum. Surely it would be more useful if it could operate in environments we can't.

Robots are basically rubbish then. Although when they take over i didn't say that :)
 
simulatorman said:
Latest R2 video:
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Thing is, i don't see how it would be able to do that on the ISS. I'm talking about the actual button pressing and switch flicking, due to the Newton's First. People can do it by anchoring themselves, but it doesn't look like R2 is anywhere near capable of that. Moreover, if you just want to automate electronics tasks - why oh why would you use an expensive (in terms of money, mass and energy) robot to do the job of a tiny, remote controlled computer chip?
 
PermaBanned said:
Thing is, i don't see how it would be able to do that on the ISS. I'm talking about the actual button pressing and switch flicking, due to the Newton's First. People can do it by anchoring themselves, but it doesn't look like R2 is anywhere near capable of that. Moreover, if you just want to automate electronics tasks - why oh why would you use an expensive (in terms of money, mass and energy) robot to do the job of a tiny, remote controlled computer chip?
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Yeah I'm sure nasa forgot about that little detail... the robot can anchor itself in many ways including with a zero G "leg" normally though it's going to be stuck on the end of the big arm on the outside of the station/ship so as not to risk astronauts lives and reduce the need for EVA supplies.

But to make sure you don't need 1 set of robo tools/equipment and one set of human operable back ups it makes sense to make the robot capable of operating anything the humans can (or to put it another way anything the robot can do if needed can be done by a person)
 
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