Robotic cosmonaut Robonaut 2 passed the final tests before being sent to space

On Habré, more than once they wrote about a pretty and quite perfect robot astronaut who was named Robonaut 2. This robot, as developers hope, will be able to do a lot of useful things for us, people, participating in various space programs. Let me remind you that Robonaut 2 is a joint project of NASA and General Motors, project work has been underway since 2007, and now the heroic robot has passed the final tests, having received only fives (well, maybe with a minus). Now our researcher has a direct path to space. The developers on this occasion drank all the champagne in the office hung out a press release , where they told about the further achievements of the iron cosmonaut.

Let me remind you that Robonaut 2 is designed to replace a person during a spacewalk. In addition, he knows how to eliminate breakdowns in depressurized compartments. Previously, there were some problems when the robot copied the movements of a human operator. Now, almost all the problems behind, and the last test for the robot - open space.
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That's just all this robot will do after some (yet indefinite) time. In the press release, there is no specifics, which can not but upset, but it pleases that the robot did pass all the tests, and now it really will work in space.



By the way, during the work on the robot, developers received 34 patents, among which there are extremely useful for the automotive industry (well, not for nothing that the guys from General Motors are trying there). Among them - automatic parking, the definition of moving objects in the "blind" zone and others. Well, this is by the way, the case is not entirely relevant.



It remains only to regret that the date of sending our robot into space has not yet been determined.

But a few days ago, the same NASA guys successfully tested an automated lunar station, which even managed to land in trials on Earth.



Maybe these two iron friends will become partners on the moon? Although unlikely, after all, Obama recently said that the US Lunar program is winding down. It's a pity.