THE PERFECT MAN: MEN LOVE, WOMEN LOVE IT!

The muscles prominent and refined good looks, you just follow instructions, do not talk back and do not ever complain. Cathy Coleman believes that lives very close to the perfect man, and their relationship is just beginning.

Although not yet the movie together, and always comes dinner package, it loves the way the new love of her life she loves to do all those things that she hates them - including housekeeping.

In reality, the movies or get a race out after a glass of milk would make some trouble Cathy, who, in 2012, lies 425 km (264 miles) above Earth aboard the Space Station International, and the reality is that his perfect partner is a humanoid robot created by surprising cooperation between NASA and the legendary manufacturer of the Chevrolet.

Robonaut 2, or R2, as it is known, is designed to assist astronauts on the International Space Station daily chores, while providing the opportunity to develop the Chevrolet manufacturer of next generation technologies in control systems , sensors and video systems, technologies used in creating vehicles and safer work spaces.

"Since we do not believe this and feel that the extraordinary times we live in and change the world in more naturally with robots. Leading robotics technology opens vast perspectives, not only for Chevrolet and NASA. R2 program gives us the opportunity to develop a wide range of practical applications of this technology, "says Marty Linn, chief engineer at Chevrolet robotics department.

The R2 also opens the road for future research related to prosthesis design and even exo-skeletons for soldiers wounded in the world or for people with limited mobility - the ability to use advanced sensors, similar to those of the members support systems rear parking. Engineers seek ways to help workers on production lines have to raise heavy loads.

Launching into space

In preparation for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour in Cape Canaveral, scheduled for May this year, was loaded aboard a vital package for R2 - which since February this year, with the astronauts on board the International Space Station - which will help to initiate the program of experiments in conditions of weightlessness of space planned for the robot.

Robot reached the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery STS133 was unpacked and will be operational in the next few weeks and will interact with a specially created task panel - which includes cables, connectors, plugs and soft objects that can be grasped, such as bags or clothes - so engineers can adjust and improve its sensors and control systems.

"Lord" Muscle

Daily chores such as washing dishes or buttoning a shirt încheiatul are things you do without thinking too much, but for the engineers who created R2, they are of particular interest. R2 is the robot with the highest degree of skill built up now, with his hands very similar to human ones. All tools and equipment on board the space station have been designed to be used by people, and R2 should be able to perform their tasks in the same way that would make her and fellow humans.

"The arms and hands have a skeleton articulated robot R2 similarly human cells," Linn added, "and thumbs are four degrees of freedom, almost like human ones, which could allow the adaptation and use of this technology in medical research." It is generally believed that the emergence of opposable thumb was one of the reasons why early humans were able to develop the ability to use tools, so R2 has been designed to incorporate this capability.

R2's mechanical hands have a very similar operating principle of the human, on which they were created, including a similar freedom of movement and precise control of both position and the force - which gives hope creators limbs and universities for researching diseases of human bones and joints.

"Unlike many other previous humanoid robots, R2 is thinner fingers and thumbs are very similar to human ones. Just as in humans, tendons serve to link the muscles and bones, tendons possess R2 connecting joints of the skeleton with sensors and actuators in the palm. This allows control systems to measure accurately R2 reaction forces and the ability to constantly adapt to any kind of hand grip task would carry it. "

Linn adds: "Cleaning a kitchen door handle, washing a glass of wine or a screw cap plastic bottles may seem like ordinary things, but every time you do, achieve, small-scale movements hundreds of bio- mechanical. These movements combine dexterity with precise handling and a certain amount of force applied to specific tasks - all of which are key issues for robots. A poor move, and wine glass washing will not dry, too much force, and it will crack or break. "

R2 demonstrate this skill when you shake hands Chevrolet Michigan Technical Center visitors - regardless of size or firmness of hand raising hand, R2 is adjusted automatically.

"Chevrolet uses several robots on production lines than any other company in the world, having their different roles, from logistics system to the assembly," Linn says, "so that we could involve some of the brightest minds to have in the design of R2. "

"Working together with scientists and NASA engineers, we are confident that we have created the most advanced robot technology in the world, which will give us a high degree of flexibility in future production, at work, but the real advantages other areas. "

"R2's training to carry out hundreds of tasks is similar to the process by which a child learns to complete all necessary steps by holding buttons, future robots, developed on the basis of R2, will use their hands to grab, take and do all those things that are so natural for us. "

More hands make work easier

The link between washing dishes and space travel is much closer than you think. Wherever you live, the house cleaning and dusting is a repetitive task that does not provide satisfaction and to be taken to complete each week - even at 425 km (264 miles) above Earth, and at a rate of 27,743.8 km / h ( 17,239.2 mph).

Not only provides a pleasant residential area, but removes dust and kill bacteria on surfaces of work - a fact vital to the laboratory conditions on the space station, where the existence of an aseptic environment in zero-gravity pressurized capsule generates its own oxygen decisive.

"Astronauts on the International Space Station spend around 60% of the time cleaning everything from buttons to handrails and glass surfaces, thus R2's first role is to take their repetitive tasks, which leaves the team more time for experiments and important tasks, "Linn added. "As the program progresses, R2 will also undertake more complex tasks such as repairing the module and, in time will even get to make trips into space."

Ideal man or woman-wonder?

Linn says that although it is a robot, R2 has its own personality. "Women see the R2 perfect man, handsome and obedient, while men see in it their perfect partner. In fact, R2 is assigned a certain type of personality depending on who interact - from children who see his best friend's grandparents. "
R2 can only mean that a trunk, a head and some arms mounted on a support, but Cathy Coleman is not alone in his love R2. Hundreds of pupils and students who saw him in action as part of NASA's global education program are now following this meeting, excited and inspired by studies in engineering and science.

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