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I'm Kody Ensley and I do software engineering
on Robonaut at Johnson Space Center.

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Basically the robot, Robonaut 2 behind me,
has onboard software; the processors actually

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live in his stomach.

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What I'm doing is helping to architect the
software that will allow the robot to be able

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to move around inside the Space Station autonomously.

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I was born and raised on the Flathead Indian
Reservation in Pablo, Montana and when I was

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a kid growing up, my parents invested a lot
of money into Lego's and I think that's probably

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the reason that I ended up here today.

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I was not one of those kids at the age of
6 who knew they would end up with NASA.

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One of NASA's own, Scott Askew, was involved
in a program called the NAFP which is basically

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where NASA lends out professors to travel
to universities.

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I heard about something called the Undergraduate
Student Research Project and I applied for

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the USRP program.

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After successive internships and then finally
a coop, I was hired here at Johnson Space

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Center.

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Being able to do outreach and show that there
are opportunities like internships, Co-ops,

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where not only you can leave to get training,
but can bring that back to the Reservation

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and you can help pass that along to other
people there.

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It has probably been my proudest personal
accomplishment.

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We don't want robots to replace people; we
don't think they can, but we definitely think