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this project is all about understanding

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how humans and robots can work together

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to improve future space exploration in

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this project you know we don't see it as

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a question of you know humans or robots

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humans and robots work very naturally

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together and they don't have to work

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just hand in hand they can have you can

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have robots working ahead of crew robots

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working in parallel the crew or in

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supportive crew and robots working after

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crew so there's this whole spectrum of

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how you can have robots really doing

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things to make humans more productive

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more efficient more effective in space a

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lot of things we see out there today and

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the world really are robots we just

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don't call them robots you pick up a

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cell phone for example smartphones is a

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ton of software in there that makes them

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you know very intelligent they can sense

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the world they know where you are they

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can provide you with information you

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know the recent phones you can speak to

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them and know if they'll you can ask

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them questions what's the probability of

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snow and that's very much the same sort

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of software that we're developing in our

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project to make robots more intelligent

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to really make them useful as as

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partners and really assistance of humans

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when astronauts perform tests there's a

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lot of setup before the task is actually

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started and a lot of teardown after the

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task is done particularly on Space

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Station setting up the tool setting up a

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variety of equipment if a robot can

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perform that task it allows the crew

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person to be much more efficient doing

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the things that only a crew person can

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do yeah so one of the interesting robots

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were working with is a system called

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spheres MIT developed this about 10

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years ago they've actually had three of

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these volleyball sized free-flying

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robots on station for the past four

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years and what we're doing right now is

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is adding an upgrade to these free

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flyers they're originally made as

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satellites we've added actually a

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smartphone sort of a brain upgrade if

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you want to think of it that way to give

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them cameras and onboard sensing and a

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Wi-Fi connection so now we can have not

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just us free flying satellite but our

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free flying robot one of the other

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really exciting robots we've been

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working with is Robonaut 2 which was

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jointly developed by the NASA Johnson

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Space Center and General Motors now

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Robonaut 2 is a two-armed dexterous

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humanoid robot which

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means it can reach out and grab objects

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and manipulate them move them around

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just like you and I can it's very very

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agile very capable and what it can do in

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terms of the way it works with forces

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and being able to pick up and move

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things around so we're trying to make

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use of Robonaut to to do things that

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humans currently have to do those

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routine very repetitive perhaps long

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duration tasks that you just need to get

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done things such as say filter change

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out basic maintenance these are classic

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things that require a human level

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dexterity and for the very first time we

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have a robot that actually can do those

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things so hopefully this project will

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lower the workload on crew there's a lot

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of tasks that they do that are very

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boring in dull one is that they have to

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take radiological sensors and go around

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the station essentially measuring

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radiation the other is audio dissymmetry

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so they have to figure out the amount of

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noise on the station the hope is that

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much like your Roomba you can turn it on

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and it will run around your house and

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clean your your house for you that the

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sphere would eventually be able to fly

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around station and do some of these dull

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tasks for astronauts and there are a lot

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of good reasons for wanting to use

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robots in a VA it is a dangerous

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environment it is a place that requires

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the use of lots of oxygen and other

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things that we can't easily replace

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especially on a deep space mission so if

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we're able to create a robot that can do

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some of this work in a VA that has huge

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benefits to human exploration this

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project is really meant to look at how

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do you best use robots to improve human

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exploration especially for deep space

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missions and one of the things we're

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really trying to do is make sure that

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the robotic Hardware the robotic

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software and the way we operate the

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robots is really appropriate for looking

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at future missions our tests over the

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next two years really are designed to

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help us understand what are all the

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issues associated with using robots for

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human spaceflight having robots work

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with humans and so I think really all of

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our testing is driven by and our desire

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to create systems that really improve