Social RoboticsCIMON-2, an astronaut assistant with emotion analysis, completes its first ISS tests
The German space agency reported that the second version of the floating AI assistant had worked with Luca Parmitano aboard the space station.
CIMON-2 reached the International Space Station in December 2019 and was put to work in February 2020 with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. DLR reported that it flew autonomously to points in the Columbus module on voice command, captured images and video and showed them to the astronaut. An astronaut can switch on linguistic emotion analysis so that the assistant responds in an empathic way. The project, built by Airbus with IBM Watson language technology and human-factors work from LMU Munich, is an early test of a conversational, socially aware assistant in an isolated, high-stress setting.
Source: DLR (German Aerospace Center)
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