
Robonaut 2, or R2 for short, builds upon Nasa's decade-old Robonaut technology, which was designed specifically for space travel. (The space agency's partner then was the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, aka Darpa.) While R2 is faster and more technologically advanced in a number of ways, what really stands out are its hands, which Nasa says can do work beyond the scope of earlier humanoid robots.
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