Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator
The Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Canada Hand (a.k.a. Dextre), is a smaller two-armed robot capable of handling the delicate assembly tasks currently handled by astronauts during space walks. Testing was done in the space simulation chambers of the Canadian Space Agency's David Florida Laboratory in Ottawa. The manipulator was launched to the station 11 March 2008 on STS-123.
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