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The paper briefly outlines DLR's experience with real space robot missions (ROTEX and ETS VII). It then discusses forthcoming projects, e.g., free-flying systems in low or geostationary orbit and robot systems around the space station ISS, where the telerobotic system MARCO might represent a common baseline. Finally it describes our efforts in developing a new generation of “mechatronic” ultra-light weight arms with multifingered hands. The third arm generation is operable now (approaching present-day technical limits). In a similar way DLR's four-fingered hand II was a big step towards higher reliability and yet better performance. Artificial robonauts for space are a central goal now for the Europeans as well as for NASA, and the first verification tests of DLR's joint components are supposed to fly already end of 93 on the space station.
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Hirzinger, G., Brunner, B., Landzettel, K. et al. Space Robotics—DLR's Telerobotic Concepts, Lightweight Arms and Articulated Hands. Autonomous Robots 14, 127–145 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022275518082
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