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NASA's Robonaut-2 reunited with its ride into space at Smithsonian

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Robonaut-2 ( R2 ) is NASA 's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

The two -armed, two -legged robotic testbed launched to the International Space Station in 2011 .

R2 is now on exhibit at the Smithsonian 's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia .

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .

He is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of " Space Stations: The Art, Science , and Reality of Working in Space" In 2021 , he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History..