Robonaut To Escort On Space Shuttle Mission

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 12, 2010 @04:58AM from the goodness-gracious-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The STS-133 crew will deliver robot Robonaut 2 (R2) to the International Space Station. Cocooned inside an aluminum frame and foam blocks cut out to its shape, R2 is heading to the station inside the Permanent Multipurpose Module in space shuttle Discovery's payload bay. R2, with its humanlike hands and arms and stereo vision, is expected to perform some of the repetitive or more mundane functions inside the orbiting laboratory to free astronauts for more complicated tasks and experiments."

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Re:R2-D2 by Anonymous Coward · 2010-08-12 05:17 · Score: -1, Redundant

I really hope that there is somthing like a "Device 2" on that robot... so that it can be shortened R2-D2
Sorry Dave by BenOliver21 · 2010-08-12 05:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.