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You may be all too familiar with HAL 9000 from Space Odyssey, 2001 film, AI program onboard the spaceship that became all too powerful. Welcome NASA's humanoid robot, developed to power space exploration and help astronauts by operating in extreme and dangerous environments and performing repetitive tasks. Though Robonaut is still in a test phase, the ESA powered it up to test its power consumption and troubleshoot a faulty cable. The ESA post reveals that Robonauts could be used to explore other planets under human control by astronauts – the Haptics2 telerobotic experiment.