NASA's Personal Satellite Assistants

Posted by michael on Thursday June 10, 2004 @06:20AM from the battlebots dept.

colonist writes "Wired News reports on the Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA), a spherical robot about the size of a softball that uses air jets to move in the microgravity environment of space vehicles and habitats. Described as a cross between Star Trek's tricorder and Star Wars' lightsaber training droid, the PSA has 'sensors for measuring gases, temperature, and air pressure' and performs 'video conferencing and can communicate with electronic support devices such as computer servers, avionics systems, and wireless LAN bridges'." We mentioned these a few years ago - looks like they've come a long way since then.

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Other links of interest by bonghorn · 2004-06-10 06:22 · Score: 5, Informative

More information is available here and here.

Kind of weird that they don't play up the fact it runs linux more.
More on Defense Tech by noahmax · 2004-06-10 06:23 · Score: 5, Informative

There's a bunch more on how the Trek-inspired 'bot was built and tested here.
Earning my nerd stripes by darth_MALL · 2004-06-10 06:25 · Score: 5, Informative

Wrong SW droid man! The IT-0 droid in that link is a torture droid. You will find the correct Training Remote Here. May the Force be with YOU!