Relax as this isn't Washington and FEDOR isn't a threat to anything except maybe jobs in space because he is working up his skills for accomplishing astronaut tasks. (RT: Space-bound Russian android FEDOR shows off handyman skills (VIDEO))
There is another video on the RT article which is more of a promo but this one shows the engineers working with FEDOR to teach him his moves. The range and variety of them are most extraordinary.
Right now it looks like FEDOR is being paid by the hour and he will have to snap up his performance considerably before he can be a real spacebot but, unlike your daft cousin Elwood, he can be trained.
Note: step up to about 2:20 for when he starts driving a car by himself. Maybe that qualifies for things you never, ever, thought you would see.
We don't want humans going out on spacewalks even when it looks cool on TV as they do it since risking your life trying to install a TV antenna on the space station is rather more than watching TV is worth. Definitely send the 'bot and let him do it.
The 'bot doesn't have such human-like hands yet but it will and those hands won't need a spacesuit. Sure, that's obvious but a human hand inside a spacesuit isn't much more than a hammer. It's amazing that the astronauts can accomplish much of anything out there. The 'bot won't have that constraint so it should be much faster for them to do most space walk tasks and they should be able to do much more intricate things.
Ed: humans might as well go to space with VR glasses since we don't ever really go 'out' in space at all or we will die.
Incorrecto. We must be present wherever the 'bots are because of the propagation delay for any signal from Earth. There's no way to work with a 'bot on his vitally important mission when it's thirty seconds or longer between each communication. Until you beat the speed of light with your Nobel Prize-winning Dirac transmitter, humans will need to go out there too.
Here at the Rockhouse, we think humans need to be out there anyway ... just because we can.
Note: don't read any Manifest Destiny into that as it's not the same thing unless we make it that way. My preference is we might develop some civilization before that time and would not consider such a thing. Eventually we will meet some BEMs (i.e. traditional reference to Bug-Eyed Monsters in sci fi) so it might be good if we grow up just a wee bit before that time.
Ed: because they can melt us with some type of beam our physicists never considered?
That's definitely a consideration, Watson.
There is another video on the RT article which is more of a promo but this one shows the engineers working with FEDOR to teach him his moves. The range and variety of them are most extraordinary.
Right now it looks like FEDOR is being paid by the hour and he will have to snap up his performance considerably before he can be a real spacebot but, unlike your daft cousin Elwood, he can be trained.
Note: step up to about 2:20 for when he starts driving a car by himself. Maybe that qualifies for things you never, ever, thought you would see.
We don't want humans going out on spacewalks even when it looks cool on TV as they do it since risking your life trying to install a TV antenna on the space station is rather more than watching TV is worth. Definitely send the 'bot and let him do it.
The 'bot doesn't have such human-like hands yet but it will and those hands won't need a spacesuit. Sure, that's obvious but a human hand inside a spacesuit isn't much more than a hammer. It's amazing that the astronauts can accomplish much of anything out there. The 'bot won't have that constraint so it should be much faster for them to do most space walk tasks and they should be able to do much more intricate things.
Ed: humans might as well go to space with VR glasses since we don't ever really go 'out' in space at all or we will die.
Incorrecto. We must be present wherever the 'bots are because of the propagation delay for any signal from Earth. There's no way to work with a 'bot on his vitally important mission when it's thirty seconds or longer between each communication. Until you beat the speed of light with your Nobel Prize-winning Dirac transmitter, humans will need to go out there too.
Here at the Rockhouse, we think humans need to be out there anyway ... just because we can.
Note: don't read any Manifest Destiny into that as it's not the same thing unless we make it that way. My preference is we might develop some civilization before that time and would not consider such a thing. Eventually we will meet some BEMs (i.e. traditional reference to Bug-Eyed Monsters in sci fi) so it might be good if we grow up just a wee bit before that time.
Ed: because they can melt us with some type of beam our physicists never considered?
That's definitely a consideration, Watson.
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