Reply to post: Re: Why a umanoid robot in space?

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

Simon Harris

Re: Why a umanoid robot in space?

"An octopus-like design would be more functional"

Maybe if it was autonomous, but this one is a remote controlled avatar designed to mimic the actions of a human operator, so it makes sense if the arms and head are in a humanoid configuration to match the operator's hand-eye coordination.

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