[SpaceProgram] Fast Company - NASA Tests Helper Robots Inspired By Star Wars And Powered By Android

[Huei Ming Tan]

NASA's SPHERES<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/telerobotics/11-160.html>
(Synchronized
Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) are one step
along that path. They've been around since 2006. The bowling-ball-sized
robots fly around the International Space Station using CO2 thrusters. If
you think they look kind of like Luke Skywalker's lightsaber training
droid<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VangvXb1B0E>,
that's no coincidence. MIT professor David Miller used that scene as
inspiration when he assigned the project to his students.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665800/nasas-helper-robots-inspired-by-star-wars-and-powered-by-android


Warmest regards,
Huei Ming
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