Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.
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It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.