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Can Students Fix What NASA Can't?

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

November 22, 2015

Filed under JSC, MIT, NASA, Northeastern, R5, robot, students

This week, @NASA gave MIT a humanoid robot to develop for future space missions. https://t.co/yHzmChXRpX pic.twitter.com/SEhj2JDC7d

— MIT (@MIT) November 22, 2015

Without cables this #NASA robot falls over. Hopefully #MIT Students can fix what NASA can't. https://t.co/I5F9rFHy4U https://t.co/KYIdC40Gtf

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 22, 2015

– Is JSC’s R5 Droid Worth Fixing?, previous post
– NASA Awards Space Robot R&D Projects to MIT, Northeastern, TechNewsWorld
– NASA wants to make a C-3PO to help colonize Mars, which may not be a super idea, Wired
– NASA selects Northeastern for humanoid robot research, Northeastern University

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

One response to “Can Students Fix What NASA Can't?”

John Adley says:

November 23, 2015 at 3:03 pm

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I am not totally surprised by this. Just look at the demographics of PhD students in today’s engineering departments: it is usually 70% Chinese and Indians, 20% citizens from other countries, and 10% Americans. On the other hand, NASA can only hire US citizen effectively shutting out some of the best young people. That’s why NASA no longer represent the best of the US science and engineering.