Posted on 08/31/2021 9:06:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The S1 was successfully delivered along with a few other assorted goodies.
Well, it’s really more like part of a robot, or a robot arm to be precise. If you’re imagining a full-on humanoid robot, you might be disappointed.
NASA says that in a recent demonstration, “the robot [conducted] common crew activities and tasks via supervised autonomy and teleoperations from the ground.” Not only that, but NASA also says that robot “labor could reduce the cost of spacecraft operations and improve safety by taking on tasks that could expose crew members to hazardous risks.”
The smart, mechanical arm is made by a Japanese robotics startup, Gitai, which specializes in space robotics. The company says that the S1 has eight degrees of freedom, which is one more than a human arm. Take that, meatbags.
Gitai also lists the reach and power of the S1 at 1 meter (3.3 feet) and 100 Nm at 23.8 revolutions per minute. I don’t know how the force compares to that of a human, but if I’m reading NASA’s human instruction manual right, which lists a max torque of 17.4 Nm for humans, then, yeah, the S1 can open a lot more pickle jars.
S1 is meant for lunar base development...
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
Ground experiment of the GITAI robot technical demonstration inside the ISS Bishop planned in 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVgkpb1puw
Hopefully this robot arm responds more like Lisa from Weird Science than Ah-nold.
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