NASA Ames developing softball-sized robotic astronaut's assistant

Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are developing an autonomous robot the size of a softball that astronauts in space can use to monitor environmental conditions and provide hands-off communications links with the ground. Dubbed the Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA), the project grew out of a...

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