Friday, 3 May 2013

Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots

FLOATING robots the size of soccer balls, with cellphones for brains, may soon be flying through space. Hacked smartphones have turned NASA's dull SPHERES robots into sensor-laden automatons with enough smarts to one day take over menial tasks aboard the International Space Station. The goal is to free up astronauts for more demanding jobs.
crawled from : Newscientist

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