The competitions will center on NASA's famous space robot Robonaut 2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

ENGADGET: NASA announces competition to improve Robonaut's sight

Designed in an extremely short timeframe, X1 came from technology developed for Robonaut 2 and IHMC's Mina exoskeleton.

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Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, currently is working with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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The Robonaut is designed to perform maintenance tasks aboard the space station to free up the Astronauts for more important research tasks.

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The initial challenge will focus on enabling Robonaut 2 to interact visually with different types of input devices the astronauts use on the Space Station.

ENGADGET: NASA announces competition to improve Robonaut's sight

The first humanoid robot in space, Robonaut 2, will not be joining the crew for the game, as he was recently disassembled following some maintenance earlier this week.

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This first phase of the two competitions is to enable Robonaut 2 to recognize the state and location of several buttons and switches on a dashboard fitted with LED lights.

ENGADGET: NASA announces competition to improve Robonaut's sight

You can follow Robonaut on Twitter here.

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