NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 6, 2015 @09:48AM from the safety-mechanism-to-prevent-it-from-killing-all-humans dept.

BarbaraHudson writes: Robonaut 2, now in orbit on board the International Space Station, has run into problems with the software controlling its new legs. From the article: "The machine ran into a few technical errors. According to NASA, the ground teams deployed Robonaut's software and received telemetry from the robot, but were unable to obtain the correct commands for the leg movement, which are vital to performing every day tasks aboard the International Space Station. Ground teams have begun assessing how to move forward with this issue, though it is unclear if they currently have a fix in mind."

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Re:Does Robonaut not have a backup? by neo-mkrey · 2015-01-06 10:09 · Score: 4, Insightful

Never trust Version 1.0 of anything.
Re:Does Robonaut not have a backup? by BarbaraHudson · 2015-01-06 10:45 · Score: 3, Funny

I can't remember. Does that version have the "Kill all humans" command built-in?
Hard to tell - we can't seem to locate any of the coders who wrote it.

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Re:Tech Support: by product_bucket · 2015-01-06 11:02 · Score: 3, Funny

/dev/ttyACM0 not found This program requires root priveliges to access legs. unable to run... using lateral undulation instead