Cape Canaveral, Florida - The first robot - human handshake in space occurred Wednesday.
Daniel Burbank, the commander of the International Space Station, shook hands with Robonaut.
Robonaut is a NASA robot that went into space last February on the Discovery shuttle. Its intended aim is to see how it can help astronauts perform space duties.
Using computer software, ground controllers made Robonaut extend his right hand. Burbank did the same with his and shook it up-and-down. Robonaut even slightly tightened his grip, which Burbank said was “a firm handshake.”
Robonaut said, on a Twitter account, “The handshake was definitely one of the highlights of the day, but I'm not done yet”
A future model could possibly go outside for spacewalks as well.
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