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Image: Interact Robot Centaur designed for remote operation aboard the International Space Station

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Visitors to the ESA Technical Centre's Open Day came face to face with a centaur as they toured the telerobotics laboratory.

Equipped with 4x4 wheels and a pair of fully mobile robot arms, each fitted with grippers and a camera, this still-to-be-finished Interact Robot Centaur is designed for remote operation by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

It will be put to use in the 'Interact' demonstration next year. The aim is to simulate the way a Mars rover might one day be remotely controlled by a crew orbiting the Red Planet.

Mars is much too far for direct remote control from Earth, but flying astronauts around the planet would overcome the problem of time delay, extending human intelligence and intuition to planetary exploration without the danger and expense of landing.

The outdoor test campaign is due to take place next year, using a control system already aboard the Station for the lab's Haptics-1experiment to assess the use of force-feedback in weightlessness.

A wearable control exoskeleton can also be seen on the right side of the picture.

Established in 2009 at ESA's technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, ESA's Telerobotics & Haptics Lab is developing technologies for advanced human-machine interaction, extending the human sense of touch to space and planetary environments.

Explore further: Image: ESA's telerobotic robot hand

(Phys.org) As engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in ESA's telerobotics laboratory follows in sync.

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Image: Interact Robot Centaur designed for remote operation aboard the International Space Station

Amazing! NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Time-Lapse Video of ‘Polar Aurora’ – Video

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http://www.undergroundworldnews.com NASA flight engineer Reid Wiseman has published jaw-dropping time-lapse videos of the polar aurora, as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). ...

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Official Battlestation First Contact (by Bugbyte) iOS / Android Launch Trailer – Video

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Battlestation First Contact by Bugbyte (iOS / Android) Take command of a space station in this free real-time sci-fi strategy game with roguelike features! The year is 2259. The name of the...

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Battlestation First Contact (by Bugbyte) – iOS / Android – HD Gameplay Trailer – Video

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Battlestation First Contact by Bugbyte (iOS / Android) Take command of a space station in this free real-time sci-fi strategy game with roguelike features! The year is 2259. The name of the...

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Alien Isolation Oculus Rift DK2 Zeiss Head Tracking TriDef 3D: part 3: Hide and Peek – Video

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Alien Isolation Oculus Rift DK2 Zeiss Head Tracking TriDef 3D: part 3: Hide and Peek
Some may have led you to believe all there is to AI is one xenomorph chasing one girl around a space station.. it isn #39;t so .. you can spend hours being chased around by guys and girls too.....

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Low-Cost Space Travel From A Chinese Startup? Soon, Maybe

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A company in China is planning to offer a low-cost near-space tourism service that would send people roughly 40 kilometers, or nearly 25 miles, above the Earth. Space Vision, a Beijing-based startup, wants to offer a more affordable way to send people into space, or at least into near-space, using a specially designed high-altitude balloon, which will begin testing next summer.

According to the South China Morning Post, Space Vision plans to send passengers up 40,000 meters, roughly 131,000 feet, inside a pressurized capsule that will be lifted by a large balloon filled with non-flammable, non-toxic helium. From that altitude tourists would reportedly be able to see views of the Earths curvature and the vast dark space that surrounds the planet. The capsule would then descend using a large parachute.

People would be able to experience a brief moment of weightlessness, but they would not be able to say they have been in space, technically: The U.S. government designates as "astronauts" people who have been at least 50 kilometers above the Earth. That's 25 percent more than the maximum altitude projected for the Chinese craft.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Space Vision priced one five-hour trip at about 500,000 yuan, or $81,000 per person, which would include training and insurance. Similar services offered in the U.S. from World View Enterprises cost $75,000 per passenger. While $75,000 is not a cheap trip, it is considerably less expensive than the offerings by other companies such as Virgin Galactic, which will take you up to 100 kilometers, or 60 miles into space for $250,000 on the SpaceShipTwo space plane.

The companys president, Jiang Fang, is confident in Chinas wealthy and increasingly adventurous citizens to help propel his business. Look around and you will find that we have plenty of potential customers in China who have enough courage, and wealth as well, Jiang told Xinhua.

Though Space Vision would be the first to offer space tourism services in China, laws and regulations regarding control of civilian air space and national security concerns will prove to be a challenge for the company. As a result, Jiang is calling on legislators to allow private space activities.

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