Canada Puts Its Robot Arms On $5 Bills, Leads The Space Currency Race

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Americans like to tease Canadians about their colorful (and often animal-themed) money, but we think the tables might just have turned. When the Bank of Canada issues a new $5 [url="http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/15/canada-to-introduce-recyclable-polymer-based-plastic-cash-dr/"]polymer bill[/url] this November, one side will include both the Canadarm2 and [url="http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/26/dextre-robotic-refuels-satellite/"]Dextre[/url] manipulator robots in tribute to the nation's work on both the [url="http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/17/visualized-space-shuttle-endeavour-crosstown-la/"]Space Shuttle[/url] and [url="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/07/nasa-astronauts-iss-google-hangout/"]International Space Station[/url]. Let that sink in for a moment: a country's currency will reference [i]space robots[/i] alongside the usual politicians. The only thing dampening the awesomeness is the irony of it all, as it's an ode to technology in a format that's being [url="http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/24/square-launches-in-canada-streamlines-payments-on-the-world-stage/"]destroyed by technology[/url]. Still, we'll consider the $5 note a victory for geeks everywhere when we're buying a box of Timbits.