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Super awesome humanoid robot, built by NASA and General Motors. From the way they talk in the video, it sounds like they want to use these for setup and tear-down (that is, prep work and cleanup) for tasks that would then be completed by space-walking astronauts, thus saving the astronauts from having to be out in space so long, completing tedious tasks before and after doing the things that I assume NASA isn’t as willing to trust robo-astronauts to do.

Also, I assume these so-called “robonauts” are cheaper to replace in the event that HAL-9000 kills one of them.

Posted at 3:44pm.

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