A German government-funded robotic arm recently installed on the outside of the international space station has been successfully operated by ground controllers using a joystick in their offices, ...
Germany's first experiment in space robotics has now come to an end. On the evening of 15 November 2010, two Russian cosmonauts performed a space walk during which they removed the Rokviss robotic arm ...
(Nanowerk News) Although only about 400 kilometres separate the Kontur-2 joystick and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) ROKVISS robot, the remote control ...
2010-11-15 ROKVISS completes its very successful mission. For publications and videos see ROKVISS Results. Germany’s recent space robot project ROKVISS was successfully launched on December 24th 2004 ...
The two International Space Station crewmembers successfully wrapped up their mission's first spacewalk Wednesday morning after setting up experiments and inspecting vent openings. Commander Leroy ...
A pioneering German-Russian mission, set to begin testing this week on the International Space Station, aims to demonstrate the ability of robots to perform in-orbit servicing and repair tasks, saving ...