An autonomous robotic arm is preparing to fly to the International Space Station to service its Russian segment. The European Robotic Arm (ERA), constructed by European aerospace company Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA), will fly to the orbital outpost on July 15 together with the brand-new Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, also called Nauka (the Russian word for science). Plane engineers have actually currently set up the lightweight arm onto the module, ahead of its launch from the Russian Space Agency Roscomos Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton rocket, Airbus stated in a statement.The robot resembles a set of compasses with 2 in proportion arms, each a little over 16 feet (5 meters) long. Fitted with a dexterous hand at the end of each arm, ERA will have the ability to move freely beyond the area station, connecting itself anywhere its needed, ESA said in a statement. Related: Space station robotic arm struck by orbital debris in lucky strike (video) Weighing just 1,390 lbs. (630 kgs), thanks to its light-weight aluminum and carbon-fiber structure, the arm will be able to move and set up parts up to 17,600 lbs. (8,000 kg) in weight while having the ability to reach targets with 5 millimeter precision. However it could likewise transfer astronauts and cosmonauts during spacewalks from one working site to another. Cosmonauts and astronauts will have the ability to either control the arm in real time from inside the space station or pre-program it to perform tasks autonomously. The arm also has an additional computer in the middle, which could be used by astronauts and cosmonauts to go into guidelines throughout spacewalks. Fitted with an infrared cam, ERA can inspect the area stations structure and elements and stream its view to the astronauts and cosmonauts inside the orbiting laboratory. With two years of development, the arm was developed by a consortium of European business led by Airbus, which then assembled the robotic at its facilities in the Netherlands. The International Space Station already has 2 robotic arms: the 17m-long Canadarm2 and the 10m-long Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System. Neither of these can reach the Russian segment of the area station.Follow Tereza Pultarova on Twitter @TerezaPultarova. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook..