Yahoo! News - Canadian Robot a Candidate to Save Hubble
The leading candidate is a clunky contraption named Dextre that bears little resemblance to movie-inspired visions of a robot. A final decision won't be made until next summer on whether to launch the two-armed Dextre — short for dexterous — or any other robot to Hubble's rescue in 3 1/2 years. But already, it looks as though the Canadian Space Agency (news - web sites)'s robot could accomplish most if not everything that spacewalking astronauts were meant to do. Dextre was originally designed for handiwork at the international space station
It may be clunky but it looks pretty cool to me!
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