Icarus Robotics is flying JOY, the free-flying robot it is sending to the International Space Station, on four parabolic flights from September 9 to 11. This will be the first time the hardware operates in true microgravity.
JOY is a free-flying robot with two high-dexterity robotic manipulators, built to move through the pressurized interior of a space station and handle the cargo and logistics work that consumes astronaut time. It flies to the ISS in 2027 as JOYRIDE-1, under a mission management agreement with Voyager Technologies announced in March.
JOY is the most computationally powerful free-flying robot ever to reach the International Space Station, running its intelligence entirely on the edge. [Read more…] about Icarus Robotics to fly ISS-bound robot in true microgravity for the first time