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Astronauts and robots seal deal with a handshake
02/15/2012, While having the commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shake hands with Robonaut on Wednesday to signal the first handshake between a human and a humanoid – in space, no less, is historical, it surely is nowhere near [...]
R2 robot sends tweets from space
08/25/2011, While Japan’s Tweeting-robot won’t be in space until 2013, NASA’s R2 robot that has recently awakened at the International Space Station has started sending us Tweets from space. It has been reported that the R2 (Robonaut 2)’s twitter account @astrorobonaut [...]
Robonaut by NASA is alive and kicking
08/23/2011, NASA’s humanoid robot aptly known as Robonaut has awakened from its slumber – in space, to boot. This was made possible as ground controllers sent the word to have Robonaut up and running, marking its “birth” ever since it was [...]
International Space Station sees humanoid robot take residence
03/01/2011, There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of seeing the final piece of a jigsaw puzzle being placed – and we would say the same applies to the last US module which was attached to the International Space Station on [...]
Robonaut 2 to make an appearance at Super Bowl XLV
02/03/2011, The infamous space robot, Robonaut 2, will be making an appearance at this year’s upcoming Super Bowl event (XLV). Created by General Motors and NASA, the robot will make a guest appearance with Fox Sports analyst Howie Long during a [...]
Robonaut 2 is ready to ride on final Discovery flight
11/02/2010, The space shuttle Discovery is about to leave for its final flight to space and back, so why not throw in an extra crew member that is not composed of sinew and blood, but nuts and bolts instead? We’re looking [...]
Robots end up testing underpants
02/10/2010, Just when you thought that robots were supposed to perform complex functions and help out in International Space Stations, along comes Gunze’s new commercial that points out to their new range of Body Wild underpants, boasting bipedal robots that wear [...]