Dextre is, of course, the new toy on the International Space Station. It was designed and built in Canada, and was recently installed on the ISS. Its official name is SPDM – Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator.
NASA loves acronyms.
There is a glorious photo of Dextre on yesterday’s (April 1) Astronomy Picture of the Day. Click on the pic below, and you can go see it in all its high resolution glory.
It looks like something out of The Jetsons.
All this talk about robots leads one to consider whether they (the robots) might be taking over a little too much. Consider this news report:
In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?
