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Smartphone with a 3D scanner space from Google joined with NASA SPHERES robots to work on the ISS
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Something like that, only much more perfect, it was shown in "Prometheus». I>
Not so long ago Habré published a very interesting news about the smartphone space with the scanner. This project was named Project Tango, and the author of a number of developers it appears Google (in fact, the development is within the company).
Himself a 5-inch smartphone is equipped with stereo camera, sensors and software that track the position of your smartphone in 3D-space, as well as scan the world in real time at a rate of 250 thousand. Measurements per second. All this is combined into a single 3D-model with a unique processor 1 Myriad developed startup Movidius.
So, now, these smartphones will be integrated into robotic sphere NASA, called SPHERES.
size robots does not exceed the size of a volley ball, and the benefits of such a robot is much more than the ball :) According to the NASA, SPHERES must make regular trips to the ISS, monitoring the environment, including technical equipment station. In addition, the robots will assist astronauts in an emergency repair service and basic procedures. Spheres can move themselves to the station with the help of gas engines (gas thrusters).
Perhaps in the future robots will not work inside and outside the ISS, carrying out regular circled the station to identify the various problems / service operations.
Well, for orientation in space sphere using opportunities Project Tango. By the way, this is not the first smartphone Google, who visited the ISS to work together SPHERES. In 2011, the Nexus S has worked in orbit, improving navigation and functionality of the SPHERES. Testing of the project will begin this year, as soon as smartphones "zashlyut" on the ISS.
Here is video from Project Description:
Well, here's a video about the possibilities of the smartphone:
Via theverge
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/220261/
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