Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space 147
Frizzled writes "Part of the space shuttle crew's scheduled mission for this week is to assemble a massive robot which will 'rise like Frankenstein' from the shuttle's cargo bay. The robot, named Dextre, has 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet, a height of 12 feet, and was built by the Canadian Space Agency. 'Dextre can pivot at the waist, and has seven joints per arm. Its hands, or grippers, have built-in socket wrenches, cameras and lights. Only one arm is designed to move at a time to keep the robot stable and avoid a two-arm collision. The robot has no face or legs, and with its long arms certainly doesn't look human.'"
Robot Erection (Score:1, Funny)
Go Canada (Score:5, Funny)
The Japanese have them beat (Score:1, Funny)
Robotic overlords (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig 50's quote slighytly edited. (Score:5, Funny)
"long arms" (Score:5, Funny)
Oh I don't know. It reminds me a bit of Ron Jeremy.
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Just one word comes to mind... (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, but, does it have... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:!Frankenstein (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Please have both English and Metric Sockets... (Score:2, Funny)
"blast off in the wee hours" (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Go Canada (Score:5, Funny)
Typing.
Re:Oblig 50's quote slighytly edited. (Score:3, Funny)
It's no GUNDAM (Score:2, Funny)
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The robot's first words will be... (Score:-1, Funny)
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SpaceBall One (Score:3, Funny)