NASA Sending Frankenstein Into Space? Nah, Just 'Monstrous' Space Robot

A 12-foot-tall, 3,400 pound robot named Dextre is being built in a space station right now. The idea was thought up by Canadians, but Dextre is being delivered along with the first piece of Japan's massive Kibo space station, a float-in closet for storing tools, experiments and spare parts. For the first time, each of the five major international space station partners will own a piece of the real estate. Dextre, in fact, was once in the running to be the Hubble Space Telescope's savior. I saw a picture of Dextre, and I'll tell you, it really is enormous. It has two arms, and several storage compartments for tools.
The astronaut Garrett Reisman said that it is enormous, and even kind of scary. I bet it would be. Being up in space and while you're working on the space station, you see this enormous metal thing next to the station. I'd be freaking out! I also bet that Dextre is going to be very useful to the astronauts once it's finished being built.