{"id":225511,"date":"2015-03-19T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"e232810a992adba28963e74abd824b9b"},"modified":"2015-03-19T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:26:00","slug":"buzz-aldrin-inspecting-telerobotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225511","title":{"rendered":"Buzz Aldrin inspecting telerobotic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/03\/buzz_aldrin_inspecting_telerobotic_arm\/15317293-1-eng-GB\/Buzz_Aldrin_inspecting_telerobotic_arm_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPioneering Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin \u2013 seen on screen with Brian Cox \u2013 inspects the telerobotic arm later demonstrated on Wednesday evening\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b019h4g8\">BBC Stargazing Live<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLive on the show, host Dara O Briain at Jodrell Bank in the UK used the arm to shake hands remotely across more than 450 km with presenter Dallas Campbell at ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nControlling the arm at the Dutch end is Andr\u00e9 Schiele, heading ESA\u2019s Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory, which works on extending the human sense of touch into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUsing telerobotic force-feedback, the aim is to enable precision control of robots in space and also, one day, manipulation of rovers on planets by astronauts up in orbit \u2013 allowing direct human-guided exploration without the danger and expense of landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/03\/buzz_aldrin_inspecting_telerobotic_arm\/15317293-1-eng-GB\/Buzz_Aldrin_inspecting_telerobotic_arm_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPioneering Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin \u2013 seen on screen with Brian Cox \u2013 inspects the telerobotic arm later demonstrated on Wednesday evening\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b019h4g8\">BBC Stargazing Live<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLive on the show, host Dara O Briain at Jodrell Bank in the UK used the arm to shake hands remotely across more than 450 km with presenter Dallas Campbell at ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nControlling the arm at the Dutch end is Andr\u00e9 Schiele, heading ESA\u2019s Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory, which works on extending the human sense of touch into space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUsing telerobotic force-feedback, the aim is to enable precision control of robots in space and also, one day, manipulation of rovers on planets by astronauts up in orbit \u2013 allowing direct human-guided exploration without the danger and expense of landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}