Author Topic: GITAI, a japanese telepresence robot maker, to work with JAXA (Read 1792 times)

Asteroza · « **on:** 03/28/2019 03:28 am »

(Apologies if this would be better off under Japan Launchers or Advanced Concepts)

GITAI is a startup in japan working on telepresence robot avatar hardware. Notable is they have former members of SHAFT, a DARPA robotics competition competitor hoovered up by Google along with Boston Robotics when Google had that robot kick going for a bit. Google tried to sell SHAFT off to Softbank Robotics, along with Boston Dynamics, but after seeing the utter mess Softbank made of Aldeberaan (the french maker of the Pepper robot), SHAFT members said no to being bought out, so Google shut them down. People had been wondering where the members had wandered off too, and it looks like they've surfaced now in this new startup.

http://gitai.tech/

GITAI is a romanization of a japanese word, which can be interpreted to mean mimicry, in the sense of a prosthetic or an android robot.

The press release for the JAXA collaboration for ISS work

http://gitai.tech/2019/03/25/gitai-developers-of-a-human-substitute-robot-for-space-stations-sign-joint-research-agreement-with-jaxa/

ESA and NASA have been working hard on telepresence for ISS and space application, but SHAFT was somewhat special since they apparently had developed some rather advanced all electric actuators for their robots (which presumably Google still retains the patents for).

Tywin · « **Reply #1 on:** 06/06/2022 05:29 pm »

Impressive Gitai rover...

https://twitter.com/ZappyZappy7/status/1533550373335871489

https://twitter.com/GITAI_HQ/status/1453512452100919299

Asteroza · « **Reply #2 on:** 06/08/2022 12:56 am »

That centaur robot for lunar surface ops is going to be kind of a big deal for moderate latency teleoperation.

su27k · « **Reply #3 on:** 07/13/2022 01:33 am »

Japanese startup to demo robotic arm onboard ISS in 2023

Quote from: SpaceNews

Japanese startup GITAI plans to demonstrate robotic arm capabilities externally on the International Space Station for the first time next year.

GITAI said July 11 its autonomous, 1.5-meter-long dual robotic arm system (S2) would be mounted on the Bishop Airlock, a module funded by U.S.-based Nanoracks.

The startup aims to achieve NASA’s Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 from the demonstration, confirming its feasibility as a technology that could be used in space.