In recent years, many strange robots have appeared on board the International Space Station. Their task was to improve work and facilitate the life of the inhabitants of the cosmic home.
Unfortunately, none of them have settled permanently, but it can go to a robot called CIMON. Extremely technically advanced device was created in the laboratories of Airbus and IBM.
Robot Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, because this is its full name, was built of components printed in a 3D printer and equipped with the world's most advanced artificial intelligence systems. This fact was done by IBM, implementing it with neural network technologies well known to us from Watson AI.
So we can safely say that the five-kilogram CIMON is the first levitating electronic brain in space. The robot-assistant can easily recognize the voices and faces of astronauts. With each of them he can make intelligent conversations and serve the treasury of knowledge that is a global network.
CIMON will also play the role of a security guard. When unexpected technical problems occur. The device can immediately contact one of the crew members and provide the most important information about the event, and even help them quickly resolve.
The robot will appear on board the International Space Station in June and will remain there until October. Later, the European Space Agency will decide if similar assistants will become permanent members of the cosmic family.