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A new robotic arm is powered by gyroscopes instead of conventional motors to counter the effects of minimal gravity and friction in space.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: August 8, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Author: newscientistvideo

Length: 00:00:54
Rating: 4.67
Views: 24063

Tags: gyroscope robotic arm space robot motor

Video Comments:
klingasn (September 2, 2008 at 11:41 am)
Dumbass college kids
LukeSkyscraper (August 16, 2008 at 8:38 pm)
Baring in mind that I have taken note that there are other advantages to using gyroscopes for this application - I have to ask, if they're not using motors (which don't work well in space) to power the arms then what are they using to power the gyroscopes hmmmm?

And I agree with the people who ask "why haven't they done this before?" hehe, it's remarkable how clear forward vision is in hind sight.
0urGaia (August 17, 2008 at 10:49 am)
If I understand it correctly, the re-active force from pushing a satellite with the arm is countered by the gyroscopes instead of the shuttle, so they don't have to use fuel to keep shuttle on course.
NInjas0 (August 16, 2008 at 4:48 pm)
Fuck u!
lioxait (August 14, 2008 at 7:10 pm)
fuck off idiot!!!!
PerfectBlindness (August 14, 2008 at 7:19 am)
This video was very interesting. Thankyou for sharing it.
crisrj214 (August 13, 2008 at 12:34 am)
I think I understand it. Instead of using actuators to move the arm they are using gyrocsopes. Correct?
danniboi07 (August 12, 2008 at 9:13 am)
basic engineering economics. if it ain't broke, don't upgrade it.
basic american economics. Milk a technology until it's LONG dry, then make a minimal improvement and milk that.
provoko (August 11, 2008 at 5:19 am)
way too short to understand, must these videos be so short?
bitRAKE (August 12, 2008 at 5:46 am)
(IMHO) They are really just to augment their magazine articles. As you might suspect they are trying to bring greater readership to their website rather than actually promote YouTube with an assortment of quality videos.