<p>Soon, spacewalks can be a thing of the past. While robots are replacing humans on earth in various walks of life, a Canadian robot is repairing and fixing cameras on the "Canadarm2" and its mobile base at the International Space Station (ISS).<br /><br /></p>.<p>Dextre is currently in the middle of a week-long repair job to replace and fix cameras on the "Canadarm2" and would finish the job Thursday.<br /><br />"`Dextre', `Canadarm2' and the base make up the space station's robotic Mobile Servicing System, making this the first ever robot self-repair in space," the Canadian Space Agency announced in a statement.<br /><br />"Using the 'Canadarm2' and Dextre reduces the overall number of spacewalks, definitely," Mathieu Caron, mission control supervisor at the Canadian Space Agency, was quoted as saying.<br /><br />The robots are controlled from the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil, Quebec, and NASA's Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas.<br /><br />Spacewalks are very complex and use a lot of space station resources while robots never need to return to the inside of the space station, making them more flexible, the Canadian Space Agency said.</p>
<p>Soon, spacewalks can be a thing of the past. While robots are replacing humans on earth in various walks of life, a Canadian robot is repairing and fixing cameras on the "Canadarm2" and its mobile base at the International Space Station (ISS).<br /><br /></p>.<p>Dextre is currently in the middle of a week-long repair job to replace and fix cameras on the "Canadarm2" and would finish the job Thursday.<br /><br />"`Dextre', `Canadarm2' and the base make up the space station's robotic Mobile Servicing System, making this the first ever robot self-repair in space," the Canadian Space Agency announced in a statement.<br /><br />"Using the 'Canadarm2' and Dextre reduces the overall number of spacewalks, definitely," Mathieu Caron, mission control supervisor at the Canadian Space Agency, was quoted as saying.<br /><br />The robots are controlled from the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil, Quebec, and NASA's Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas.<br /><br />Spacewalks are very complex and use a lot of space station resources while robots never need to return to the inside of the space station, making them more flexible, the Canadian Space Agency said.</p>