The Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, also known as Dextre, is a huge two-armed robot that conducts repairs outside of the space station. This reduces the need for astronauts to take risky ...

Across nearly 40 years of operations, the five Canadarms and three Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) arms for the Space Shuttle, as well as Canadarm2, Dextre (formally known as the Special Purpose ...