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NASA wants to send humanoid robots to the moon

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NASA wants to send humanoid robots to the moon
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Humans won’t be the only ones aboard future NASA missions. At Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, researchers on the agency’s Dexterous Robotics Team are working on the next generation of advanced robots to aid crews during their increasingly uncharted journeys to the moon and possibly even Mars. But while job-killing automation is an increasing concern when it comes to robots, NASA’s engineers are focused on the opposite—they’re trying to keep the humans in space not only employed, but aliv

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