Well I had a look at this article because of the discovery of a planet only 5 times the mass of the Earth...which is pretty cool but lower on the page is a link to a video from 60 minutes that profiles ROBONAUT. A robot Astronaut assistant that is pretty awesome.
robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/
Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic grapples and targets) and specialized robotic tools of traditional on-orbit robotics. However, it still keeps the human operator in the control loop through its telepresence control system. Robonaut is designed to be used for "EVA" tasks, i.e., those which were not specifically designed for robots.
