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The robotic arm from Motiv Space Systems can manipulate tools, handle objects with dexterity, and move itself hand over hand along spacecraft structures in zero or partial gravity.
The Fly Foundational Robots payload will ride on an Astro Digital spacecraft and carry a robotic arm from Motiv Space Systems.
Motiv Space Systems of Pasadena, California, provides the robotic arm system through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award.
The Defense Innovation Unit selected Motiv Space Systems in 2022 to prototype satellite-servicing hardware for the Modularity for Space Systems program.
Motiv Space Systems designed and built key CADRE hardware elements at the company’s Pasadena, California, facility.
Motiv Space Systems builds motor controllers designed for extreme space environments including Earth orbit, deep space, and frigid lunar temperatures.
Motiv Space Systems designed and built the seven-foot-long, five-joint robotic arm mounted at the front of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
Motiv Space Systems custom-engineered a six-degree-of-freedom force-torque sensor for NASA/JPL’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover that operates at -135°C.