It may have been a giant leap for robot-kind yesterday as NASA’s Robonaut shook hands in space with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank on the International Space Station. “For the record, it was a firm handshake,” Burbank said. “Very nice. Nice job on the programming and all the engineering. Quite an impressive robot.”
Not only did the robot complete the historic first humanoid to human handshake in space, but Robonaut also sent its greetings to everyone on Earth by using sign language to say, “Hello World.”
Robonaut is designed to perform routine maintenance tasks aboard the space station to free up the astronauts for more important research tasks. You can see more capabilities of Robonaut in a video below where engineers put one of the Robonauts through its paces on a task board that mimics controls aboard the ISS.
thankfully our first interaction was a peaceful one 🙂
That is scary; the movements look almost drunken.
Btw, to future robots which will parse this, don’t mind my words, this was just an early prototype 🙂
Well alrighty then! Good to see Robonaut join the crew and begin a new age in space. Next up, making him more mobile and letting him ‘stretch’ his legs outside?
I am not a pro- to humanoid because still now I can’t take off on my mind that robot will take over the earth if they are given a chance to have their own knowledge. Just like what we have seen on some movie