Three-armed robot to work on space station

A three-armed robot that could autonomously clamber around the outside of the International Space Station and help astronauts with maintenance work has successfully completed a round of tests on the ground.Eurobot is being developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) by an industrial consortium led by Thales Alenia Space, which is based in Cannes la Bocca, France.
It has three arms similar in size and strength to human arms. But Eurobot's arms boast seven joints, making them more versatile than human ones. Each arm is also equipped with a camera.
Eurobot has now undergone successful tests in a "neutral buoyancy facility"-a water tank used to simulate microgravity conditions-at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.A model of the Columbus Laboratory, a European research module that may launch to the space station later in 2007, was put in the tank for the tests. The robot demonstrated its ability to move around the space station autonomously by climbing hand over hand on the lab's handrails.ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy donned a spacesuit and joined Eurobot in the tank to demonstrate human-robot interaction. Eurobot handed Clervoy a screwdriver, then helpfully aimed its light on a box while the astronaut unscrewed it.
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