NASA Anthropomorphic Projects

1. NASA now has a new two armed space-station manipulator called Dextre.   Dextre was

       built by the Canadian Space Agency and is now installed on the ISS (International

       Space Station).    Here is a nice article.     And another article.

             528KB image   (* NEW *)

2. NASA now has an EAP (Electro-Active Polymer) head project.

This is a project funded by JPL in Pasadena, CA.  The head was

sculpted by David Hanson.

             Lulabot by David Hanson of UTD. 

3. NASA's space android called Robonaut. 

This is a project at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX which is

under the direction of Robert Savely. It has been underway for

about 2.5 years. They have a staff of about 25.  Robonaut's hands

          have 14 DOF each.  I wonder how much it cost?

         Robonaut                      Showing fingers

4. NASA has a small project at the Johnson Space Center called DART

for Dexterous Anthropomorphic Robotic Testbed. It has a head with

two eyes and two rather clumsy arms with three fingered hands.

               16K image  (beware their image is 430K)

5. NASA has an entertainment android called EVA at the Johnson Space

Center in Houston (Clear Lake actually), TX. It is a female android.

Her head has 3 DOF and she has two arms ending in fully

articulated 5 fingered hands. Unfortunately, due to EVA being

in a darkened room, I couldn't get very good pictures of her.

               72KB                 29KB

More NASA links

1. NASA has a great page dealing with Human Spaceflight 

2. NASA Telerobotics page of Internet Robotics Resources

This one has an excellent list of University programs in North America

3. NASA Robot Web Links    

Here are a bunch of robots NASA has built for various projects.

http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/nlinks.html

4. NASA Robotics site.      

This is an educational website with activities for students and

teachers, videos of robotics competition, and cool robot links.

This link was sent in by Jacob Bowland.

http://robotics.nasa.gov/

5. NASA Space Center, Houston (Clear Lake), TX

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/index.html

6. NASA Headquarters - Washington DC

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/home/index.html

7. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/index.html

8. Kennedy Space Center, Florida

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html

9. JPL, (Jet Propulsion Lab), Pasadena, CA

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

10. JPL Robotics Links    

Here are a bunch of robots JPL has built for various projects.

http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/

10. WHOLE TREE of NASA links.

http://www.nasa.gov/about/sites/index.html