What an incredible picture on APOD today..
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060522.html
It's the arm they used in the recent STS-114 mission from last year, to repair the tiles.
Did anyone see "Beyond Tomorrow" last week? It had a feature on the "EuroBot"..
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This robot, which is as large as a human, is designed to carry out astronaut’s tasks on the International Space Station. EUROBOT will be able to climb the outside of a space station, attach itself to the handrails just like an astronaut and be tele-operated by the crew inside.
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Here's a great PDF with info about it:
here (650k).
Incredible stuff. The lead engineer was only 27 years old!