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In 1981, the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), developed by Canada, was put into orbit by the space shuttle Columbia, becoming the world’s first on-orbit operating robot for space applications (Siciliano and Khatib in Handbook of robotics. Springer, New York (2007) [1]).
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Wang, Y. (2021). Current State of Space Robots. In: Space Robotics. Space Science and Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4902-1_15
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