Canada’s “way cool space bot” is now standing on guard for thee, bolted to the outside of the International Space Station.
This week Dextre, the space robot, passed all of its installation tests – the power flows, the arms and wrists bend, and more importantly, they stop when they’re told to.
Astronauts from the Shuttle Endeavour installed the $209 million robot, whose official name is Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, this week on three spacewalks. They even gave the mechanical handyman a tool belt with space gadgets, mostly equipment for changing batteries and video cameras on the outside of the station.
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