The competitions will center on NASA's famous space robot Robonaut 2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, currently is working with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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The first humanoid robot in space, Robonaut 2, will not be joining the crew for the game, as he was recently disassembled following some maintenance earlier this week.
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The story -- about a giant robot from space who must choose to overcome the darker forces in his programming -- turns out to have allegorical significance, thanks to recent events.
The European Space Agency is turning to owners of terrestrial robot aircraft to aid those that journey into space.
Astronauts released the unmanned SpaceX capsule, named Dragon, from the end of the space station's giant robot arm.
Mr Shoemaker continued working with space probes, exploring through robot eyes the remotest bodies in the solar system and, naturally, their craters.
Or at least a little pin that extends so I can pop the balloon of other heads that get too close and crowd me (because my robot head needs his space, too).
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And that look always seems to get dated, whether it's danger, Will Robinson, you know, like the funny-looking robot in "Lost in Space" or whether it's, you know, Buck Rogers of the '70s.
The heavy lifting was then left to space station resident astronaut Susan Helms who used the station's new robot arm to pluck the Quest from the shuttle's cargo bay.
He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.
If China, Russia or anyone else for that matter launched a Mars rover and we were watching robot wars millions of miles away, we'd be in space heaven.
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Since RRM operations began in 2011, Dextre has performed three series of tests to show how a robot could service satellites, which were designed never to be opened in space.
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NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.
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