Space agencies often think about the problem of how to control spacecraft from the ground, but it’s useful sometimes to be able to send commands in the other direction as well: for astronauts in space to be able to control robots on Earth. That’s the idea behind a series of ‘Surface Avatar’ tests being performed on the International Space Station (ISS) to trail the method called telerobotics. A test was performed in 2023 by NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who was
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