NASA's new twitter robot is hilarious
NASA's new twitter robot is hilarious NASA has recently developed a robot called Robonaut 2 in order to help with “mundane chores and risky missions” while aboard the International Space Station. Of course, he has a Twitter account and already has over 13,000 followers. These are some of his funnier tweets… Your tax dollars hard at work here people. And to think if he was called Robonaut Bieber, he’d already have over a million fans. [Robonaut 2], which operates on pre-programmed plans, looks like half an astronaut. It has a torso, head, arms and hands and can operate much like an astronaut would on the space station. In this way R2 differs from Dextre, a non-humanoid maintenance robot that lives outside the International Space Station. B***** Dean is the press officer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. As she told Space.com, “We’ve never put a dexterous humanoid robot in space before. So we can make theories about how they’ll behave in space, but it’s always great to ch...