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NASA Considers Robot to Save Hubble

The first paragraph of the article is fascinating:

Think Edward Scissorhands, but with bolt drivers and pliers for hands and a giraffelike neck topped with a pair of cameras resembling black cratered eyes instead of the handsome head of Johnny Depp. Could this strange robot take the place of astronauts in fixing the Hubble Space Telescope? NASA is yearning to find out.

One thing that is so interesting about the idea is that most people would consider "repair" to be well beyond the capability of robots. But robots will excel at repair. Robots will repair our automobiles, our homes, our roads -- even themselves. See Robots in 2015 for a discussion.