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GITAI’s Orbital Hands
A Tokyo-born startup, now based in California, is building robot arms to take over the risky, repetitive work astronauts do in orbit
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A Tokyo-born startup, now based in California, is building robot arms to take over the risky, repetitive work astronauts do in orbit
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