{"id":3454,"date":"2010-08-21T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2021-07-11T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T21:24:57","slug":"gm-built-robot-works-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/gm-built-robot-works-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"GM built Robot Works for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GM<\/a>NASA<\/strong><\/a> recently had a coming-out party at the Space Station Processing Facility<\/a> at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> for one of its newest projects. The party was for a human-like robot called the Robonaut 2<\/a><\/strong> (R2) developed with General Motors (GM). The R2 robot has a human shape, weighs about 300 pounds, runs on a battery. The NASA\/GM-robot will join the team of the space shuttle Discovery<\/a> on\u00a0 STS-133<\/a> mission to the International Space Station<\/strong><\/a>. STS-133<\/a> is scheduled for takeoff on November 1, 2010. Although it will initially only take part in operational tests, upgrades could eventually allow the robot to realize its true purpose. R2 can help astronauts on spacewalks with tasks outside the space station<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The dexterous humanoid astronaut helper is now tweeting at www.twitter.com\/AstroRobonaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With the help of its team, R2\u00a0 sent its first tweet on July 26, 2010.<\/p>\n

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I liked the big blue GM<\/a> logo on R2. This is another example of the value of the domestic auto industry<\/strong> for the good of the U.S.\u00a0 Alan Taub, vice president of GM\u2019s global research and development said in a press release<\/a>, \u201cPartnerships between organizations such as GM and NASA help ensure space exploration, road travel and manufacturing can become even safer in the future.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GM<\/a>GM\u2019s manufacturing engineering team is already working to find potential applications for R2\u2019s array of vision, motion, and sensor technologies<\/strong> that will aid workers in manufacturing operations. According to GM’s Taub, \u201cThe work done by GM and NASA engineers also will help us validate manufacturing technologies that will improve the health and safety of our GM team members at our manufacturing plants throughout the world.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

“For GM, this is about safer cars and safer plants,<\/em>” says<\/a> the GM VP for global research and development. “When it comes to future vehicles, the advancements in controls, sensors, and vision technology can be used to develop advanced vehicle safety systems. The partnership’s vision is to explore advanced robots working together in harmony with people, building better, higher quality vehicles in a safer, more competitive manufacturing environment<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Maybe it will be a reminder to politicians like Dick Shelby<\/a> of AL who opposed loans to GM to further the interests of the foreign car assemblers<\/a> in Alabama.<\/em><\/p>\n

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