Aversatile robot 'actor', created in the UK by Engineered Arts, has beaten off international competition to become the public face of NASA's world-famous Kennedy Space Centre. First developed in 2006, the latest version, 'Robothespian 3' - pictured here with its creator Marcus Hold - stands five feet nine inches tall, with a full range of upper-body movement and startlingly human eyes. NASA is employing this third generation robot as a figurehead, meeting and greeting visitors to its futuristic Cape Canaveral base.
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