What's The First Thing NASA's Humanoid Robot Does After Waking Up? Starts Tweeting, Of Course

He’s only a few months old, and already he’s a Twitter fiend. NASA’s Robonaut 2 helper droid has finally been “unboxed” after months in a crate on the International Space Station, and one of the first things he did after achieving his freedom was send out a tweet.

Robonaut 2, also known as R2, has been sitting dormant on the ISS since February. As io9 reports, he was finally given power and turned on Monday.

R2’s

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