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NASA's Using PlayStation VR to Learn How to Operate Robots in Space

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NASA has sent humanoid-like robots to space in the past and they've proven to be incredibly useful. The problem, however, is controlling those robots while still on Earth, and that's proving to be a bit difficult at the moment.

Enter Sony's PlayStation VR hardware, which NASA is currently using as it tries to figure out a better way to control their robots, but this time with human input. As reported by Road to VR, NASA worked with Sony to create a VR demo called Mighty Morphenaut, which was developed to simulate what it's like for NASA's Robonaut 2 and the challenges it faces while in space.

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