MIRROR robot reflects future of in-orbit assembly
Image: ESA
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ESA describes a robot called MIRROR that crawls across a laboratory, gripping and repositioning pieces of equipment to build a structure beneath itself piece by piece. The concept points toward robotic assembly of structures in orbit.
Like a climber, selecting and adjusting its grip on the next hold and slowly moving across a rockface, the robot seen here crawls across a dark laboratory clutching onto pieces of equipment to steadily build a structure underneath itself, piece by piece.
Summary by ESA, the primary source