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R2 Lands Space Station Gig

Posted in: Communications,Technology News by admin on April 14, 2010


Moving slowly and deliberately, a pair of white-gloved hands reach out, grasp a white cloth and carefully pull it back, revealing a manila envelope. The hands then deftly move to the envelope, pick it up and present it to onlookers. The scene is from a NASA video, and the hands belong to a character known as “R2,” or Robonaut 2 — a startlingly humanoid looking robot currently prepping to fly to the International Space Station aboard the last scheduled space shuttle mission in September.

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