CIMON the AI robotic and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst pose collectively on the ISS.
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“Be good, please,” a free-floating robotic face tells ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in a video launched by the European House Company on Friday.
CIMON (Crew Interactive Cellular Companion) is an Alexa-like robotic full of IBM Watson synthetic intelligence. It arrived on the Worldwide House Station earlier this yr.
The robotic is supposed to help the human crew members with duties, present some leisure and increase morale. The ESA video exhibits Gerst’s first interactions with the machine, and a few of them are a bit unusual.
It begins off innocently sufficient with CIMON responding politely to Gerst’s instructions. The robotic engages in small speak. Gerst asks it to play his favourite track, which seems to be “The Man-Machine” by German digital band Kraftwerk.
Issues take a flip as CIMON begins to query the intentions of his human companions. “Do not you prefer it right here with me?” it asks Gerst as NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor watches from close by. “Do not be so imply, please,” CIMON says, incomes an astonished look from Auñón-Chancellor.
CIMON is a know-how demonstration experiment that may probably obtain updates and enhancements from its growth group.
The excellent news is CIMON does not have management of the ISS techniques like HAL 9000 did with the spacecraft in 2001: A House Odyssey. Gerst finally ends up praising the robotic’s means to fly in microgravity, however CIMON may have to work on its insecurity.
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