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>> Any time we have a checkout on orbit
there's a lot of products that go into that.

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We have the training products that we have to
create, we have crew come over and get trained

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up on the robot, they dry run the procedures,
we also have a lot of real time ops products

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that have to be created, there's an entire
flight ops community that we're interfacing with

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and everybody has to be brought up to speed
on what's going to happen, what's expected,

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how much time is going to occur, that all
has to be coordinated ahead of time so that

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when things are happening real time everything's
expected in terms of what the robot is going

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to do, what its next actions are, everybody's on
the same page and so it takes an amazing amount

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of time and preparation in
order to achieve that level

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of understanding between the ops community.

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Then there's the technical side to it, what
we're trying to accomplish on the robot

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from the scientific point of view and so
all of that has to be married together

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because we our milestones as researchers in
the lab and the ops community has standards

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in which they need to achieve those
milestones and so we're trying

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to bridge those two worlds together on
this unique payload such as Robonaut.

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This milestone for checkout
1.5 was particularly important

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because it was the first time the
robot moved under its own power.

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The previous checkouts that we had done really
looked at just booting up the robot systems,

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making sure that everything from a sensor
point of view, from a computer point

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of view had survived ascent to the space
station as we expected it so we powered

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up the computer system, we looked at the thermal
signatures cause we want to take things slow

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and we've become very satisfied
with the state of the robot

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and so checkout 1.5 was ok
let's get that robot to move

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and go through the adaptive morning script

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to tune the software parameters
to how it moves in 0G.

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So that was a huge gantlet that we had to go

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through because we're not flying a
fancy computer, we're flying a robot

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to assist the crew with their daily
activities and of the activities in particular

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that we feel the robot could better serve.

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You know cleaning things and assisting the crew
from that point of view so we ultimately have

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to get the robot to move so this was a huge
milestone because it means that all the system

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and there are hundreds of systems that
are all cross checking each other,

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sensors that are cross checking each
other that have to work in order

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for the robot to even begin motion.

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So our checkout yesterday was looking at the
differences between how the robots going to work

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in OG and how we've been
testing it on the earth in 1G.

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The robot was going through and moving its
arms one by one, moving each of the joints

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in its arms to understand the differences
between operating in 1G and 0G.

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The robots actions are controlled
by a set of software parameters

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and those software parameters have
to be adjusted between here on earth

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and in the space station and so we had the robot
go through and adaptively learn the differences

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between those software parameters.

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There's a certain choreography
to it of how we interact

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with the crew cause we don't talk
directly with the crew and we have

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to discuss we have our Robonaut flight
controllers and they discuss the actions

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and what's going to take place and
in the off nominal that we might have

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with a specific actions and so those have
to get sent up to the crew and then the crew

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in their observations are sending
down to the flight controllers

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on the ground what they're observing and so
there's this nice little dance that has to occur

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and plus we're doing commanding both
from the ground and onboard the station

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so with yesterday's events for example Mike
Fossum was actually commanding the robot

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on the station and so he was initiating
the scripts and he was loading the scripts

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that were having the robot run through

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and like I mentioned adaptively learn
it's game parameters for operation

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but at the end we had the ground stow the robot
and so there's this nice tradeoff and this dance

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that has to occur back and forth and a
lot of real time ops that are happening

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and coordination so check out 1.5
is what we accomplished yesterday

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and it was a very exciting day for our lab
in particular, all the flight controllers

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that we had on the ground
watching the robot and the crew.

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I don't know if you got a chance to
see Mike Fossum in some of the video

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but he was a very excited
individual running that robot

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and then we were equally excited
watching him run that robot.

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We can sort of already get the sense
of the relationship of the crew

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and Robonaut could have in the future.

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He was you could tell that Mike felt very
like the activities that we were doing

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with Robonaut represented this new
age that we're trying to usher in,

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which is having the crew and a high dexterous
humanoid work together and we were just

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so genuinely excited to see his enthusiasm
and the events couldn't have gone any better.

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We having the first humanoid
robot aboard the ISS move

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under its own power was really a momentous day.

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It was really tough to contain our emotions
because you're supposed to be this stoic,

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have this sense of you know seriousness in the
control center but yet we were grinning from ear

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to ear like kids in a candy store,
just having the most wonderful time,