Episode 67: SwRI’s Space Robotics Center

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Engineers in SwRI’s new Space Robotics Center are developing software to operate robots in space. Robots are called in when a job is too dangerous for humans but they move differently in space. The Space Robotics Center captures cosmic characteristics, like lighting fluctuations and low friction, allowing development of robotics in a space-like environment. The center specializes in simulation, advanced perception, robot manipulation and off-road autonomy, capabilities that allow robots to accomplish assembly, manufacturing and other tasks in space. Listen now as SwRI engineers Meera Day Towler and Lily Baye Wallace discuss the advancing field of space robotics, the Institute’s new cutting-edge center and the future of space robotics technology.

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0:00.0	transforming Earth-based robotics into technology that operates in space. That's the goal of
0:06.8	SWRI engineers in the Institute's new space robotics center, where they're bringing a little
0:12.8	corner of the cosmos to campus. That's next on this episode of Up, Technology Today.
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0:51.3	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Fenia. A new space robotics center is bringing space-like conditions to SWRI.
1:00.0	In this lab, engineers are developing capabilities for robots that can carry out tasks in space,
1:06.0	like assembly and manufacturing.
1:09.0	Robots for space need special capabilities.
1:12.5	SWRI engineers Mira Day Towler and Lily Bay Wallace are leading research and development in the new center.
1:19.8	They're here to tell us about the groundbreaking field of space robotics and how they are
1:24.4	simulating space conditions.
1:26.5	Earthside, thank you for being here, Mira and Lully.
1:29.5	Thank you for having us.
1:30.6	Thank you.
1:31.7	So let's start with understanding this vast field of space robotics.
1:37.9	What is it?
1:39.0	What type of technology are we talking about here?
1:42.1	Sure.
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