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Details of The umanoide robot of NASA
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In the laboratories of the Johnson Space Center di Houston (Texas, USA), the division Systems Robot Technology of NASA has intensified in these last months the studies and the tests of "Robonaut", the robot-astronaut, planned in order to replace and/or to place side by side the human astronauts in the extravehicular activities in the space, which the assembly, the maintenance and the repair of the orbiting stations. The plan, that it has also implications of military character, is lead in collaboration with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), the main organization of research and development of the Department of the American Defense. 
Robonaut, of which they have been realizes two exemplary to you (Robonaut up to now To and Robonaut B, both currently employs to you in the experimentations), is anthropomorhic, but lacking in the inferior limbs, absolutely useless in operations EVA (Extravehicular Activity). The umanoide structure of the log and the advanced limbs is due however to the fact that great part of the technology hardware of the vehicles spaces them has been up to now realized in function of the direct participations of the astronauts, and that also the instruments and the tools for employ to it in atmosphere EVA they are conceived for the human manualità .
The two arms and the respective hands (to five fingers) of Robonaut, to whose movements join those of torsion of the log, are set in action by means of 300 sensors, coordinate to you from an independent system beyond that from the devices you for telecontrollo remote. The operating abilities to Robonaut, realized second the levels more advance you of science robotics, will be able to exceed in many cases those of the astronauts, are in the too much long missions and rischiose it is in any case for the force, the delicacy, the regolarità and the precision of the performances in the use of the instruments. 
The last tests carry out to you in these days to the Johnson Space Center di Houston, in a Station Space simulated them, have been all exceed to you shiningly. Robonaut hour has also a "leg spaces them", demonstrating to know itself to even move and to handle objects better than a human. The test with the new leg, has seen it to exhibit itself in "spacewalking" to the outside of the vehicle spaces them, guided from a single teleoperator in a position to simultaneously controlling mobility of the robot and its skill with a communication system wi-fi.
Draft of a remote control much sophisticated one, obtained through a combination between an interface of virtual truth and oral commandos, that it allows to manage all the movements of the robonauta. "the test has tried that Robonaut can esssere commant with happening also in an atmosphere spaces them", has said the Dr. Robert Ambrose of the JSC' s Automation, Robotics and Simulation Division. It does not remain that to wait for to see it to the work in the next missions on the Moon and Mars.
Category: Robotics
Type: Glossaries and Dictionaries
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