United States space agency, NASA, will get a new crew in outer space. NASA’s new astronauts are unique, because he’s not human, but robots that resemble humans. This robot will be sent into space this year. Astronaut robot called Robonaut 2 or R2 will become permanent residents of the international space station.Robot astronaut is a project of cooperation between NASA with General Motors (GM) – an American car company. R2 specification does not indiscriminate. He must be able to become an assistant and worked with humans, both astronauts in outer space on Earth maupung GM workers.
Robot R2 weighing 300 pounds was made up of head, body, with two arms and two hands. R2 will be launched simultaneously with the launch of space shuttle Discovery, as part of STS-133 mission planned next September. While R2 flight out, engineers on Earth will continue to monitor the robot working in a room without weights. For a while, the activity of R2 will be limited in the Destiny laboratory. However, in the future, with additional modifications, this will enable robots to work more broadly, outside or in a complex space station.
“The project is realizing the promise that in the future, robots could work in outer space or on Earth. Not only to replace humans, but also works with humans,” said Director of NASA’s Exploration Systems in Washington, John’s Olson, just as it loaded the page NASA. “Combined robotic and human potential, will allow us to go far, reaching more than what we can possibly imagine today. Not just shapes such as humans, R2 is also similar to the way humans work, can even replace humans in dangerous tasks. For now, still a prototype and R2 do not have adequate protection to exist outside the space station in extreme temperatures.
