This Week In Bots: Space Droids, Dog Droids, Chatting Droids And Farming Droids

Do Astronauts Dream of Electric DEXTREs? Potentially evoking creepy memories of external circuit failures from the film 2001, an important circuit breaker aboard the ISS recently popped and had to be replaced. The thing is, it sits in an electronics sled outside the ISS, and would’ve necessitated an astronaut to perform a spacewalk to fix it–but this time the Canadian-made DEXTRE performed the task entirely by remote control, with mission controllers runnning the operation from Houston while the astronauts aboard the station slept

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This Week In Bots: Space Droids, Dog Droids, Chatting Droids And Farming Droids