'R2' robot to join space station crew, says NASA NASA has announced that once again life is to imitate art, as the human race's principal manned spacecraft - the International Space Station (ISS) - is soon to gain a robot crewmember known as "R2". The R2 robot from NASA and GM. Credit: NASA Probably doesn't have a message from an imperilled princess or anything. Rather …
1.) Why does it have to have a head modelled on a Power Ranger?
2.) What good is a Humanoid fixed torso robot over say a standard robot arm?
3.) Is this the same GM that has been bailed out multiple times by the US government because they keep making cars that nobody wants?
4.) Does anybody else think it's the fore-runner of "Johnny Cab" from total recall? Hence GM link?
If 3 is true, I suppose we chould be thankful it's not Toyota. The last think you want on you spacestation is a droid that want stop.
"So stick it in a space suit,"
Nice idea, and I suspect the *point* of making it a (roughly) human sized, human shaped robot. Perhaps inspired by the work of Shadow Robotics but maybe its parallel evolution.
My bet is the mungous hardware stand it sits on and the cable it drags around behind itself will deter such plans for some time to come.
That's not a proper robot!
Where are the spinning blade attachments?
Where does it fit an Uzi 9mm?
It looks like it can only say 'I love you' rather than 'YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY'
Lame, NASA, Lame. I bet the Russians could come up with something fierce and give it a proper acronym like I.V.A.N. or T.R.O.T.S.K.Y. Actually, Rasputin would be rather cool too.
"Open the Pod Bay door, Rasputin"
"And let your stinky puny body into my pristine form? You jest, organic life-form! FEEL MY WRATH!"
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