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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nismok" data-source="post: 6625685" data-attributes="member: 109094"><img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/RobonautFrontal_540x360.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Is this the new face of the automotive assembly line? Meet Robonaut 2, the result of a  collaboration between NASA and General Motors, along with engineers from  Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston. NASA and GM see the new humanoid  robot fitting in well both in the automotive industry and in the  aerospace business. <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/RobonautGesture_540x359.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Robonaut 2, or R2 for short, builds upon NASA's decade-old Robonaut  technology, which was designed specifically for space travel. (The space  agency's partner in that go-round was the Defense Advanced Research  Project Agency, aka DARPA.) While R2 is faster and more technologically  advanced in a number of ways, what really stands out are its hands,  which NASA says can do work beyond the scope of earlier humanoid robots. <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/RobonautTools_540x359.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The R2 machines are designed to use the same tools as humans. NASA  and GM say this advanced dexterity means the robots will be able to work  safely alongside flesh-and-blood astronauts and technicians.  "For GM, this is about safer cars and safer plants," Alan Taub, the  automaker's vice president for global research and development, said in a  statement. "When it comes to future vehicles, the advancements in  controls, sensors and vision technology can be used to develop advanced  vehicle safety systems. The partnership's vision is to explore advanced  robots working together in harmony with people, building better, higher  quality vehicles in a safer, more competitive manufacturing  environment." <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/Robonaut20pound_540x360.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />R2 can lift and hold a 20-pound weight, or roughly four times as much as  other dexterous robots, NASA says. <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/RobonautCurl_540x445.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Robonaut 2 isn't the first collaboration between NASA and GM. The two  worked together four decades ago on the Apollo program, developing  navigation systems and the lunar rover vehicle. <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/RobonautLab_540x360.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />R2 keeps company with a GM project engineer at the Johnson Space Center  in Houston. <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/02/04/Robonaut_B_440x330.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />From December 2003, this is Robonaut B, a much earlier update of the  original technology, retrofitted with a mobility  platform that uses the base of a Segway transporter.[YOUTUBE]6g3qzOZLs6s[/YOUTUBE]</blockquote>

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