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Robonaut 2

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General Motors and NASA have teamed up to build a robot assembly-line worker.

They would never go on strike, take a pay cheque, or cost billions in pension funds. 

A next-generation workforce of advanced, human-like robots is being co-developed by General Motors engineers and NASA scientists, to be employed on both vehicle-assembly lines and in space.

The United State's biggest car maker and national space agency have announced they are collaborating under a new Space Act Agreement to build a "faster, more dextrous and technologically advanced robot" called Robonaut 2 (or R2).

Car companies have long used large robotic arms to manufacture vehicles, but the humanoid R2 features pivotal joints, fingers and opposable thumbs that would allow it to use tools and perform intricate work.

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