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NASA has now assembled our first space robot overlord:

Two spacewalking astronauts attached 11-foot arms to the international space station’s huge new robot Sunday, preparing the giant machine for its handyman job on the orbital outpost.

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Dextre — short for dexterous and pronounced like Dexter — has seven joints per arm and can pivot at the waist. Its hands, or grippers, have built-in socket wrenches, cameras and lights. Only one arm is designed to move at a time to keep the robot stable and avoid a two-arm collision. The robot has no face or legs.