NASA and GM have teamed up to work on the next generation robonaut. That is, a robot-astronaut.
NASA and GM this week revealed that the engineers and scientists from the two companies have been working together at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to build a humanoid capable of working side by side with people. The original robonaut was built 10 years ago and with today's technology and a little help from GM engineers, R2 is said to be vastly superior to R1 (though specifics are thin on the ground).
Utilizing bleeding edge control, sensor and vision technologies, the idea is that R2 will be able to assist real, flesh and blood cosmonauts with the more dangerous space missions.
If only this had been around in 1998, Bruce Willis could have been saved!!
Yup. You'd think they'd pick up Toyota as a partner over GM.
I dont know but this sets up an epic battle between Honda's robot and GM's! Itll be like Voltron all over again!
Nice.
I think not. In light of Toyota's recent issues with products that don't stop and go when they are supposed to I don't really think they would have been any better.
They aren't magically better... That honeymoon is over: if you use cheap parts your shit will break, regardless of whether you are a Japanese or American company (and of course, both do it). However the last thing you could accuse NASA of being is cheap. They spend millions on space pens, Russians take pencils.
Yea thats the bottom half they haven't made yet. "D2" would mean he's Asian tho. (for teh idiots "D.ick 2. inches")
1) Given its made by GM , how long it will be until someone modifies its software to convince it to demand union representation?
2) NASA's James Hansen will be delighted ... since they've made worker that doesn't produce CO2 there's no need to keep most of humanity alive to provide services for the elites.
Anyway they still got time, they didnt even ended its legs! it would look nice if they gave it the same that R2D2 has.