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150: Undersea grippers and in-space assembly with Dr. Backus
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:22:44
Publish Date: 2019-05-05 11:00:00
Description:

Dr Spencer Backus talks about his work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He explains the complexities of trying to design hands for robots. An example of a robot hand is the undersea gripper he worked on, which looks like "an angry starfish." He also talks about the benefits and challenges of in-space assembly of spacecraft.
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