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posted by martyb on Friday March 02 2018, @05:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the CIMON-says dept.

IBM Is Sending a Floating Robot Head to Space

[HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey] hasn't deterred Airbus and IBM from teaming up to develop CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN), a floating robot the size of a medicine ball that is equipped with Watson AI technology.

Later this year, CIMON is set to become the first "flying brain" in space when it is deployed to the International Space Station (ISS) to work alongside astronauts.

CIMON will use its neural AI network, combined with its face and voice recognition technology, to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency's Horizons mission between June and October 2018.

What will CIMON be doing?

Once the functional testing of the system has been completed, Gerst will work in Space with CIMON a total of three times: They will experiment with crystals, work together to solve the Rubik's cube and perform a complex medical experiment using CIMON as an 'intelligent' flying camera.

I → H
B → A
M → L


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 02 2018, @08:32PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday March 02 2018, @08:32PM (#646606) Journal

    Yeah... Creepy like a perv

    Would rather just have a voice

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