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Located on the exterior of the International Space Station's Harmony node, the Canadian-built Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, is photographed from Space Shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Designed for station maintenance and service, Dextre is capable of sensing forces and movement of objects it is manipulating. It can automatically compensate for those forces and movements to ensure an object is moved smoothly. Dextre is the final element of the station's Mobile Servicing System. Earlier the STS-123 and Expedition 16 crews concluded 12 days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:25 p.m. (CDT) on March 24, 2008.

Via NASA's STS-123 Flight Day 15 Gallery, S123-E-009714, 24 March 2008
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlem ...
( www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts123/multimedia/fd15/fd15_gallery.html )

One step closer to world domination.

Bow down to your Canadian overlords! Mooohahahahahahahahahahaha....

Blame Canada!!!

Dugg for the title. Awesome.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Sorry, had to do it.

O Deeeexterrr!
Our robot overrlorrrd
True mecha love in all thy arms command.

With glowing scopes we see thee rise,
The True cyborg strong and free!
From far and wide,
O dex, we stand on guard for thee

C A N A D A!

(go habs!)

Bow before the might of Dextre.

Anyone know why all the robotic arms that have been used in space (both on the shuttle and the space station) including Dextre, are covered in a cloth like material?

Whats all this Canadian bashing all aboot, eh? You hosers should really come to Canada. We got robots in space, eh? The next one we send up is gonna have WAY more arms... and a can opener eh?

-Bob and Doug MacKenzie, Directors, Canadian Space Agency.

How many Blend speeds does it have? I bet you don't need to add ice......

Mental note, build giant EMP gun to defend myself

"He's more machine now than man"

The angle of this photo owned Canada's leaf.

Hockey.

Open the pod bay doors, eh Dextre?

It looks like a modern version of the robot from Lost in Space...you know, the one that sabotaged the Jupiter 2

Hockey ... as in, will I now get all my Hockey in High Def with Dextre in space? ...

***** off hoser eh'

few outside Canada know that every one of us have small versions of Dextre in our kitchens.

Few outside Canada know that every one of us ARE small versions of Dextre.

Click, whirr.

Dee-Dee! Get out of my laboratory!

What's all this noise aboot robot overlords, eh?

I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlords (as long as they bring the gold standard with them).

Good to see it got in space.. Ricky and Julien were going to robonap Dexter for their big boot hockey tourney. No doubt Cory and Trevor messed it up.. damn *****

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime
Where were working in a mine
For our Robot Overlords
Did I say Overlords, I meant Protectors

At first when I read the title I thought this was going to be about some cough syrup drinking freak who thought he was the king of Tussin-land.

such a clean image. no noise

I Dugg this story, but now when I try to Undigg it, (for reasons all my own) I keep getting a pop-up message saying "I can't let you do that, Dave". WTF?! Who's this Dave guy anyway?

The pitch blackness of space is really quite amazing.