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NASA's cute space robots just hit another milestone
NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident response. NASA's 12-inch wide cube-shaped robots are more like a flying Roomba than a Boston Dynamics dog or humanoid; more like Weebo, the flying assistant in the 90s' Robin Williams sci-fi/comedy Flubber, than Terminator.
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The robonaut is plastered with ads for everything except the open source kernel that runs it,which is Linux. They should have given it a penguin head. Robonaut 2 will be getting legs.