00:00I'm Jamie Palmer and I'm co-founder and CTO at Acreous Robotics.
00:03I'm Ethan Brahas and I'm co-founder and CEO of Acreous Robotics.
00:07And we are building the labor force for space.
00:09And our first robot, Joy, is going to the International Space Station next year.
00:13It's very hard to build space robots, so we set out by trying to actually clarify some.
00:18So this is one of the earliest ones we ever built, like cobbled together, 3D printed.
00:23We moved on to this one then when we started a very small engineering team,
00:26designed some custom arms, again, rapid prototype.
00:31It's a mobile robot. It essentially acts like a drone.
00:34It moves around inside the space station and has two robotic arms at the front of it.
00:38So this allows it to do a lot of those tasks that we just described.
00:42So things like manipulating cargo bags, doing internal logistics, inspecting seals.
00:47So it really just came from the idea of, okay, this is, you know, we need this labor in space.
00:53It's going to be an absolutely huge unlock.
00:55This is a very clear place for us to start.
00:58But Joy is very much a proving ground and a first product for what we want to do afterwards,
01:02which is the idea of going out into these EVA environments outside of these vehicles
01:07and building, assembling and maintaining infrastructure that could have never existed in space before.
01:12So you built in this lab, like essentially, close to what the conditions would be like in space?
01:17Exactly.
01:18You can never actually replicate the exact space conditions.
01:24That's the hardest thing about building anything for space.
01:27So what we try to do is capture as much of it as we can with different test rates
01:30and then different like computer physics simulation as well.
01:33We'll try to do that.
01:34We'll try to do that.
01:34Let's go.
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