The Self-Mobile Space Manipulator

Description

A view of the Self-Mobile Space Manipulator, or SM² for short. Designed as a way to assist in repairs of Space Station Freedom and other manipulation tasks, it's one of several robotics projects at CMU that focused on robots in space.

Type

photographs
color photographs

Creator

Carnegie Mellon University. Robotics Institute.

Date

1990 (year approximate)

Collection

Robotics Institute Photograph Collection

Rights

In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

Space robotics
Robots
Autonomous robots

Subject (Name)

Self-Mobile Space Manipulator (Robot)

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