Astrobee - NASA's latest robot for the ISS

[gary]

Evan Ackernan reports at the IEEE Spectrum magazine website
today in an article entitled "How NASA's Astrobee Robot Is Bringing
Useful Autonomy to the ISS".

Originally Posted by Evan Ackerman, IEEE

Astrobee is a cube about 32 centimeters on a side. Each corner and most of two sides are covered in a soft bumper material, with a propulsion system embedded in it. The central part of the robot contains sensors, control systems, a touchscreen, and several payload bays for adding hardware, including an arm designed to grab onto ISS handrails.

Article and video here -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...omy-to-the-iss

[el_draco (Rom)]

Now that's pretty cool...