第2998期:Smart gloves exploring space

The concept continues to blow my mind. It really will enable astronauts to explore.这个概念仍然让我惊叹不已。它真的能让宇航员进行探索。Dr. Pascal Lee has literally gone to the ends of the earth to test equipment for NASA.李天龙确实曾到地球的尽头为美国宇航局测试设备。We want astronauts to go to Mars, be effective explorers, to pick up rocks, to examine fossils potentially, to look for life. All these things require dexterity.我们希望宇航员去到火星，进行高效探索，拾起岩石，甚至可以检测化石，寻找生命。所有这些都需要灵巧的操作。When it's pressurized, the spaceship becomes rigid, astronauts have a very hard time moving anything, the fingers are difficult to move.当飞船加压时，舱体会变得非常坚硬，宇航员移动任何物体都极为困难，连手指都难以活动。At a conference in Norway, Lee happened to meet some engineering students with a possible solution.在挪威的一次会议上，李天龙偶然遇到了一些可能有解决办法的工程专业学生。The guy was just wearing a glove, waving his hands literally, flying this very complex piece of equipment, his drone, very precisely.他戴着手套，挥舞着双手，非常精确地操控着这台非常复杂的设备——他的无人机。It didn't take rocket science to figure out that this had rocket science applications.不用多高深的学问就能明白，这有航天科学方面的应用。Pascal invited us to join the NASA hot Mars project for the summer, which was incredible.李天龙邀请我们夏天加入NASA的火星热力项目，这简直太棒了。To do our field testing, we go to Devon Island in the Arctic. We call Devon Island Mars on Earth.为了进行实地测试，我们去了北极的德文岛。我们称德文岛为地球上的火星。This glove is a first attempt to create an interface that allows the astronaut with very subtle finger motions to have these motions translated wirelessly into commands for a robotic system.这副手套是首次尝试创建一种界面，让宇航员通过非常细微的手指动作，就能将这些动作无线传输为机器人系统的指令。Success is leading to more collaboration with the students, who formed a company called Ntention.该项目的成功促使了与学生们的更多合作，这些学生成立了一家名为Ntention的公司。This year we're going to test operation of other activities, such as control of an ATV.今年我们将测试其他活动的操作，例如控制全地形车。The smart glove can do many things. But it cannot warn of approaching polar bears. For that there is Apollo. 智能手套能做很多事情。但它无法警告即将靠近的北极熊。为此，阿波罗应运而生。