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STS82-E-5652 Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh (solid stripe on EMU) uses remote manipulator system (RMS) as a cherry-picker device to service HST. In cooperation with astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, nearby, the mission specialist was in the process of replacing the HST's Magnetic Sensing System (MSS) protective caps with new, permanent covers.

The following is a list of NASA robots and links to their respective pages. Granted you may not think of some of these machines as robots but they all are true robots.

Mars Pathfinder Mega links from SpaceLink The Remote Manipulator System The Space Shuttle robotic arm Deep Space 1 The autonomous spacecraft Cassini The mission to Saturn Galileo A journey to Jupiter Mars Global Surveyor Mapping the surface of Mars Stardust A mission to collect and return comet dust to Earth Ulysses Solar exploration of the Sun's poles Voyager Interstellar Mission It keeps going and going and going..... Antarctica 2000 Big Signal The Nomad Rover hunts for meteorites in Antarctica Robonaut A humanoid robot for on-orbit servicing The FIDO Rover A Mars rover for planetary sample returns Inflatable Rovers A rover that climbs over rocks with big inflatable wheels Aerobots Light, bouyant rovers that float through the atmosphere Nanorovers Very small (10-100s of grams) planetary explorers Serpentine Visual Inspection Robot A small, light weight visual inspector Underwater Explorer Explore a sunken fishing fleet Urbie The Urban Robot Dante: The Volcano Explorer Mucho many links at SpaceLink HazBot A mobile robot for hazardous materials The "Brain Surgeon" A robot to help in surgery HelpMate An assistant for the elderly and infirm Pioneer The Chornobyl reconnaissance robot Completed Robot Research at JPL Tried and tested technologies EVA Robotic Assistant A robot helper for astronauts