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As Endeavour departs from the International Space Station on Monday, the space shuttle crew leaves behind a two-armed robot, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM), which the astronauts affectionately refer to as Dextre. Any reference to robots in space brings to mind other famous, albeit fictitious, machines that have interacted with humans [...]
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Actually, Dextre is a lot more like R2-D2. Dextre could be considered the first real astromech. He's a robot, he's in space, and he fixes and builds things.
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Agreed.Cynthia Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Isn't it more like Dextre versus Huey, Duey, and Louey?
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?? If it's a telemanipulator, then HAL isn't a good comparison at all. It's more like a high-tech version of those long-reach "grabbers" that you use to reach high shelves...And, with the recent passing of science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, one famous machine named HAL particularly comes to mind, especially when you factor in that Dextre is what’s called a “telemanipulator.”
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