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• oldmike commented on Video: JSC's Project M
  How does the cool robot get to the moon? Is an Atlas V big enough? If you need a heavy lift capability 1000 days won't cut it....

• mgroeber commented on Video: JSC's Project M
  Why does it have to look like a human? Shouldn't the robot's design be optimized to fit the mission? I think there are a few reasons to assume that a humanoid shape is at least a good general-purpose starting point for this type of mission: - It means that the object they are controlling is close to what the people "driving" it have learned to control all their lives: a human body with very specific degrees of freedom and movement types (walking, crawling, kicking, pushing etc.) - As a result of millions of years of evolution, the human form can...

• martin commented on Video: JSC's Project M
  LOL, I guess no one knows what the TRL of this is, or they don't dare say. I assume JSC knows about this thread. How does the time delay between the earth and moon affect your telepresence technology? Easy enough to simulate, so I assume you have. JSC, make a statement or cite some papers which put meat on the bones of this technology. And, make the papers that you have retained copyright to available on your web site. A quote from JSC's web site for Robonaut (the statement may be dated) "Advanced control theory in the areas of grasping,...

• Krispace commented on Video: JSC's Project M
  2nd you mean: 20-7-69...!...

• Fred Sanford commented on Video: JSC's Project M
  To bad there isn't any computer code for " interesting" or "beautiful" or "miraculous"....