Product profile
HELIOS
HELIOS is ORBIT Robotics’ early four-arm robot concept for space-station interiors. Its legless architecture is intended to move hand over hand in microgra...
Facts
- Company
- ORBIT Robotics
- Product type
- humanoid
- Status
- prototype
- Primary capability
- space manipulation
- Website
- https://www.orbitrobotics.ch/
About HELIOS
HELIOS replaces legs with four articulated arms suited to movement inside a microgravity station. The robot can use one or more limbs to hold rails or structural features while the remaining arms move cargo, operate equipment or reposition the body, avoiding the need for a walking mechanism that provides little value in orbit.
The architecture is intended to support inventory, internal logistics, routine maintenance and assistance to astronauts inside pressurised modules. Coordinated whole-body control would let HELIOS move hand over hand, anchor itself during manipulation and change orientation without a fixed base. The system remains an early space-robotics concept and has not been presented as flight-qualified or commercially deployed hardware.
Market context
space manipulation
Summary
Type: Space robot
Core: Four arms
Function: Maintenance
Audience: Space operators
Specifications
- arm_count
- Four-arm architecture arms
- arm_transmission
- Tendon-driven; motors positioned near the shoulder with spool-and-cable joint drive
- commercial_status
- prototype
- core_functions
- four-arm manipulation; station-interior movement and stabilization; target cargo, inventory and routine-maintenance assistance; space robotics research
- elbow_joint
- Rolling-contact elbow joint
- hand_count
- Four hands hands
- mobility_class
- humanoid; multi_arm
- operating_environment
- target microgravity station interiors; laboratory prototype
Operations
- Environment
- target_microgravity_station_interiors, laboratory_prototype
- Primary user
- research_lab, space_robotics_team, eth_focus_project
- Role
- multi_arm_manipulation, space_robotics_research
- Mobility class
- humanoid, multi_arm