The International Space Station will get its first humanoid robot this fall. Though R2 is only half a man -- he's got nothing from the waist down -- he's a lot stronger than the real people he's designed to help. Also, he'll be better suited to undertake some tasks that are too dangerous for ordinary mortals.
Moving slowly and deliberately, a pair of white-gloved hands reach out, grasp a white cloth and carefully pull it back, revealing a manila envelope. The hands then deftly move to the envelope, pick it up and present it to onlookers.
The scene is from a NASA video, and the hands belong to a character known as "R2," or Robonaut 2 -- a startlingly humanoid looking robot currently prepping to fly to the International Space Station aboard the last scheduled space shuttle mission in September.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/R2-Lands-Space-Station-Gig-69771.html
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