Astronauts plug 11-foot arms into massive robot 'Dextre' at space station

[Dave Monroe]

Sun Mar 16, 1:56 AM
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space station's gigantic new Canadian-made
robot, Dextre, rose like Frankenstein from its transport bed early
Sunday, enabling spacewalking astronauts to attach its 3.3-metre arms.

[...]

To guard against a robotic mutiny, Mission Control jokingly told the
astronauts in their wake-up mail Saturday that some new flight rules
were being instituted.

No. 1, "Dextre may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm," Mission Control wrote, quoting
from science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. No. 2, "Dextre must obey
orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would
conflict with the First Law." ...

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