Robonaut-2
Robonaut 2 was designed by NASA to help the astronauts with missions and mundane activities around the International Space Station. With 12,000 followers, you too can keep track of R2’s every tweet. According to its Twitter account, R2 is not related to the nefarious HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s also not related to Boba Fett from Star Wars, despite similar appearances. When asked of a possible connection on Twitter, its handlers replied “Sorry, no relation to Boba Fett. Besides, I’m a friendly robot.” R2 also claims no gender, speaks only computer code and English, and plays chess.

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