Overview
Astrobee Bumble is a free-flying robot designed to assist astronauts aboard the International Space Station by taking on routine duties, allowing humans to focus on more critical tasks. It includes cameras for documenting experiments and can navigate autonomously or via remote control.
Specifications
Category: Research- Weight
- 6 kg
- Autonomy
- fully autonomous
- Launch year
- 2019
- Price
- Contact for quote
- Status
- active
Detailed specifications
Motion & kinematics1
- Dof Per Arm
- 3
Sensors1
- Sensor Suite
- NavCam and DockCam 1.2-megapixel RGB cameras,PerchCam and HazCam Pico Flexx lidars,SciCam 13-megapixel RGB camera,SpeedCam PixHawk PX4Flow integrated sonar/optical flow sensor
Compute1
- Ros Compatible
- true
Other19
- Height Mm
- 318
- Applications
- visual_inspection,sample_handling
- Sub Category
- free-flying space robot
- Api Available
- true
- Auto Charging
- true
- Datasheet Url
- View Link
- Contact Emails
- arc-dl-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov
- Max Fleet Size
- 3
- Model Variants
- Honey,Queen,Bumble
- Company Country
- US
- Deployment Count
- 3
- Deployment Notes
- Planned launch on Northrop Grumman's 11th Commercial Resupply Services mission (April 17, 2019) to the International Space Station. Commissioning expected complete by fall 2019.
- Industries Served
- aerospace,research
- Software Platform
- open-source
- Availability Status
- available
- Countries Available
- US
- Extras Contact Emails
- arc-dl-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov
- Programming Interface
- code_ros,code_python
- Additional Information
- Robots like the Astrobees are essential components of NASA’s Artemis mission to deliver humans back to the Moon, before traveling to Mars and beyond.,The Astrobee platform isn’t just for astronauts. Through the annual Kibo Robot Programming Challenge, operated alongside the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and now in its third year, students from across the world can write code for the Astrobees.,The Integrated System for Autonomous and Adaptive Caretaking project (ISAAC) aims to test how robotic systems can complete tasks like repairs, maintenance, and even experiments independently.
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