Astronaut On Space Station Successfully Controlled Robot On Earth

  • 9 years ago
An astronaut was able to direct a remote-controlled robot on Earth into placing a small peg into an extremely narrow hole from hundreds of miles away.

An astronaut recently controlled a robot on Earth from aboard the International Space Station with astounding precision.
Andreas Mogensen remotely took hold over the blue-and-white robot and directed it toward a circuit board. 
Once at the board, the rover, via Mogensen's joystick-based control, successfully placed a round peg into a quite narrow hole. 
The process used haptic, tactile-based technology; Mogensen could essentially feel his way through the entir

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