Robonaut- “New Generation Spacewalker"
ABSTRACT
This paper presents ‘Robonaut’, a humanoid robot designed to revolutionize the future of the space age. Robonaut is one of a kind - a “New Generation Spacewalker’, ‘the first Space Telerobot’, that can work in space with simplicity and a high level of dexterity. To borrow a line from the fictitious starship “Enterprise”, Robonaut will “go where no Robot has gone before”.
This paper enumerates Robonaut’s Technical Specifications, describes his anatomical and functional structure & the various tests performed on him. It highlights the development of robotic technology with future applications where humans & machines play complementary roles.
INTRODUCTION
The future of robots in space is not a question of human versus machine, but rather a combination of the best capabilities of human and machine to achieve something which surpasses the capabilities of either alone.
Robonaut is the first step towards achieving a synergy between tele-operation and robotics. When it is launched into space in the year 2004-05 by NASA
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