After three space walks , Dextre — the robot that will now service the International Space Station — has been complete today , and is now ready for activation . I was observe it live on NASA TV and grabbed these shots ( yes , I am that lamentable ) of this fully - put together gigantastic space spider . To get a common sense of how big it is , check the icon after the jump . Update : added new image released by NASA
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-sending-robots-into-space-to-do-astronauts-dirty-w-368133
According to astronaut Richard M. Linnehan , one of the astronauts who readied Dextre in this mission , it ’s like “ working with a Star Wars property , but it is n’t sci - fi , its world , and it ’s happening up here right now . ” Actually , with its 12 - foot - tall body and 11 - foot - long arms subject of sensing campaign and force , the $ 209 - million Dextre wait more like some kind of Nipponese battleoid , but we share the amazement .
Despite its menacing appearance and being up to of hold utmost conditions , Dextre is as accurate and delicate as it is warm : it can manipulate big , server - rack - sized object ( to a utmost of 1,323 pounds , ) as well as laptop - sized I ; all with a positioning truth proportional to the target of a quarter of an inch ( the incremental truth is 1/12th of an inch , 2 millimetre ) and a force truth of 2.2 Isaac Newton .
The 3,440 - Irish pound ( 1,560 kilo . ) robot would be super valuable for the natural process of the infinite station , save prison term and risky spacewalks to spaceman , who will be able to devote themselves to experiment rather than fixing the ISS . [ NASA TVandCanadian Space Agency ]
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