Stewart Platform on the new SpaceX Dragon v2

Watch the video here

I would embed the video directly but livestream’s player is really surprisingly stupid.

If you watch closely starting at the 4:45 mark you’ll see the nose cone for Dragon v2 open and a device stick out to grab onto the space station. That device is a stewart platform, able to make the tiniest adjustments and extert a tremendous amount of power to gently align the Dragon with the station so the airlocks can seal together seamlessly.

Also at 13:26 you’ll see a grey joystick in the center of the control console. That joystick is also a Stewart Platform. The 6 degrees of freedom of the stick allows the pilot to intuitively translate and/or rotate the ship in any direction. I wonder if the surface is also clickable?