Astronauts and robots seal deal with a handshake

While having the commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shake hands with Robonaut on Wednesday to signal the first handshake between a human and a humanoid – in space, no less, is historical, it surely is nowhere near the historic level when a human first set foot on the moon all those years ago. The Robonaut from NASA was launched in the shuttle Discovery back in 2011 as part of an experiment that looks into the possibility of having a robot in space assist astronauts around the space station.

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