Space Station Live: Orbiting Astronaut to Drive Earth Robot

NASA Commentator Crawford Jones talks with Dr. Andre Schiele, the head of the ESA (European Space Agency) Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory and the principal investigator of the Interact experiment, about the plans for a first of its kind operation from the International Space Station. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogenson will use a special joystick in the Columbus module to perform the first force-feedback-based teleoperation of a rover-based robotic arm system on Earth, getting tactile force feedback from the ground through the joystick to perform a mechanical assembly task with extremely tight clearances. Such a system could permit astronauts orbiting a planet to control robots on the surface, or people on Earth to drive robots in areas too dangerous for people to go themselves.

Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern.

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[ylette]

Humans to go BACK to Mars? Did he just reveal that humans have secretly been there already?

[djeinsteinmusic]

Our Journey of sending Humans to Mars is becoming a reality each and everyday :D

[noahwilliams]

I wish I had a robot that I could send out to the rest of the world for me. :(

[Bauke]

Maybe you can use this on Mars. When we have humans on Mars!

[surprisemotherfucker]

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