Resumen de Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots
To make the robots more autonomous, Mark Micire of NASA's Ames Research Center in California and colleagues bought a pair of Samsung Nexus S phones. They stripped out their lithium batteries and cellular antennas to meet station safety protocols, and launched them into space, where astronauts hooked them up to one of the SPHERES. In tests, the phone's computing power and built-in cameras let the NASA team remotely pilot a robot around the ISS for the first time. NASA is planning another test later this year with each modified phone controlling a separate robot.
