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It took a little over half a year to build, but the self-learning robot is ready to embark on its trip back to Earth and finally meet with the people who have helped support it all the way. CIMON spent over 6 months at STEREO-B orbiting around Jupiter and has now returned ‘home’.
Another robot with a voice and artificial intelligence is heading to the International Space Station (ISS). This robot recently launched on Wednesday (Dec. 4, 2019) alongside Space X’s Dragon transport robotic spacecraft.
AI assistants like Cimon have been around for a number of years and are popular with many people. They can sense emotions and react appropriately as well.
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After some improvements, the second version of Cimon is back and can help you in your experiments at work or while keeping company while you’re busy. In addition to that, Cimon also can sing to employees after working hours!
He is a robot created by Airbus, DLR and IBM. They are developing the robot to help humans in space exploration.
The creators hope to test human-robot cooperation
“Cimon 2 has now been transformed from a scientific assistant to an empathic conversationalist. It has more sensitive microphones and a sophisticated sense of orientation, as well as upgraded artificial intelligence and software application capabilities,” according to IBM.
“If you travel to the Moon or Mars, you can’t take all of humanity and engineers with you. So astronauts will have to rely on themselves. But thanks to artificial intelligence you can have all the knowledge of humanity at once,” said Christian Karas, head of the CIMON project at DLR.
The engineers drew inspiration from 1939 sci-fi comic strip Cherry Gertie which led them towards creating Cimon, but also from HAL computer, the “brain” of the spacecraft in Arthur Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey which was also made into a film by Stanley Kubrick.
Along with Cimon, 40 live mice, among others, are being sent to the ISS. This is the 19th Space X mission of Ilon Musk’s Space X and will arrive on April 13th. In January, the Dragon spacecraft will drop into the Pacific Ocean off of California. It will have unloaded its supplies and will be leaving the station to continue its journey around Earth every three weeks.
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