Can you design a robot arm better than NASA engineers?

Federal Times: NASA is working on adding a mechanical arm to its free-floating robot on the International Space Station and wants to see if you can design it better than their engineers.

The space agency is crowdsourcing development of the next generation of SPHERES, the robot currently being used on the ISS. The new autonomous robot — Astrobee — will be developed in several stages, with a bulk of the work being done by private citizens working together through Freelancer.com.

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