Astronaut Finish Outfitting ISS Robot, Dextre

Dextre is all assembled with arms, hands and eyes, now the astronauts are attaching the robot to the International Space Station.

The International Space Station now has help in maintaining the ISS, its name is Dextre, and it is a robot. Astronauts have attached two cameras to it that act as its eyes and a tool belt and on Tuesday will be attaching it to the outside of the station's U.S. lab, Destiny.

The 12-foot robot with its 11-foot arms check out just fine so far. The robot was flown to the ISS in pieces on the space shuttle Endeavour and has been assembled over the course of three spacewalks. So far about half of the scheduled spacewalks for this 16-day trip have been accomplished.

During the first spacewalk, the shuttle crew dropped off the first section of the Japanese lab, Kibo. This is the Japaneses word for "hope". Another of the lab's three bus-sized sections will be arriving at the ISS in May.