Canada has been workingin the area of orbital robotics for 25 years, with MDA producing robotic armsfor the space shuttle and the international space station.

OTTAWA, Canada – After clocking nearly 100 million miles in orbit, one of the space shuttle program's huge robotic arms was unveiled to the public Thursday (May 2) at its last stop — a museum ...

Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched with the Canadian robotic arm – carrying this major new component to the International Space Station on Spacelab pallet hardware built at NASA&#821… ...

Using the space shuttle Discovery’s robotic arm alongside its ISS counterpart, astronauts with NASA’s STS-114 mission — the agency’s first since the Columbia accident — will the two ...

In the past 25 years, however, that glorified crane has proven itself to be more like the space shuttle's right hand - or maybe its whole right arm, capable of both heavy lifting and an incredibly ...

A sliver of light highlighting the Canadarm and Space Shuttle Atlantis in May 2009. Image credit: NASA The International Space Station has Canadarm, a robotic arm grapple to pull, pluck, and place ...

Canadarm, the robotic arm aboard the space shuttle, and a robotic arm on the space station dubbed, in turn, Canadarm 2, were used to unload the truss from the space shuttle’s cargo bay.

The fading blue limb of the Earth backlights the shuttle Discovery docked at the ISS. At center is the station's six-jointed Japanese robotic arm folded up at the outboard end of the new Kibo lab ...

Astronauts aboard Discovery are using the vehicle’s robotic arm today to inspect the shuttle for any damage to its exterior during Thursday’s launch into orbit. The space shuttle, which will ...

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew pulled up to the international space station Saturday, bringing a giant billion-dollar robot arm that is needed to finish building the orbiting skyscraper.

Once the shuttle was within reach, astronauts used the shuttle’s robotic arm to grab the 11-tonne telescope Hubble and place it on a platform at the rear of the shuttle’s payload bay.

The arms helped the shuttle program build the International Space Station, service satellites and repair the Hubble Space Telescope; they also served as helping hands in many astronaut spacewalks.