'Star Wars' droid BB-8 had a great day at NASA making new robot friends
The charismatic Star Wars droid BB-8 probably felt right at home when it visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California this week.
The Star Wars: The Force Awakens favorite got to hang out with some real-life space robots at JPL, according to some truly charming photos posted to the lab's Facebook on March 9.
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BB-8 snapped some photos with an Earth-based twin of the Mars-exploring Curiosity rover in the "Mars Yard" at JPL -- a simulated Martian landscape used to test space robots. The droid also got to hang out with other NASA robots including RoboSimian, a bot designed to aid in disaster relief efforts.
All in all, BB-8 looks like it had a pretty great day zooming around NASA with its new robot friends.
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Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.
