Autonomous Robotic Arm System Aims to Advance Space Station Robotics

S2 System Designed to Carry Out a Variety of Tasks

California-based startup GITAI is gearing up to test a novel autonomous robotic arm system on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). Called S2, the 1.5-meter (4.9-foot) long pair of mechanical arms launched to the orbiting laboratory in January as part of an ISS National Laboratory-sponsored technology development project on Northrop Gru…