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What is the purpose of Robonaut 2?

What is the purpose of Robonaut 2?

Robonaut 2 is a humanoid sent to the International Space Station to help astronauts with various tasks. It can grasp objects, flip switches, and high-five crew members after successfully performing tasks.

What is the Robonaut robot used for?

Robonaut is a NASA robot. Engineers designed Robonaut to be humanoid, which means it is built to look like a person. This makes it easier for Robonaut to do the same jobs as a person. Robonaut could help with anything from working on the International Space Station to exploring other worlds.

What are some disadvantages of Robonaut 2?

The disadvantages of the Robonaut 2 is that it may malfunction or disconfigure a part causing it not to work.

What sensors does Robonaut 2 have?

The two Robonaut hand/wrist modules contain 84 sensors for feedback and control, 60 of which are analog and require signal conditioning and digitization. Each degree of freedom has a motor position sensor, a joint force sensor, and a joint absolute position sensor.

What happened to Robonaut?

For the last several years, Robonaut has been almost entirely disabled, and publicly available ISS status reports show that the last time the robot completed a full research task was December of 2013. This week, NASA announced that it is bringing Robonaut back to Earth to be fixed.

What type of engineer worked with NASA to develop Robonaut?

R2 was designed and developed by NASA and General Motors with assistance from Oceaneering Space Systems engineers to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries. R2 is a state of the art highly dexterous anthropomorphic robot.

What robots do NASA use?

List of NASA robots

  • Robonaut.
  • RASSOR.
  • Spidernaut.
  • ATHLETE.
  • Dextre.
  • SPHERES.
  • Curiosity rover.
  • Pioneer.

Is Robonaut still on ISS?

How long did it take to build Robonaut 2?

Robonaut 2 launched up to the ISS on February 24th, 2011, fulfilling a 15 year dream to put a humanoid robot into space.

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