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Robotic 'Beeings' Take Over Space Station [VIDEO]
Jeff Reinke Apr 12, 2019
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In an effort to provide more assistance to those at the International Space Station, NASA is sending along some worker bees to lend a helping hand.

Dubbed Astrobees, the flying robots were developed and built at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. A pair will be sent to the ISS later this month to help with crew monitoring, sample retrieval for research projects, and other routine tasks.

They will also be used in conjunction with CIMON, an artificial intelligence robot developed by Airbus and Germany’s DLR space agency and powered by IBM’s Watson supercomputer. CIMON, which has a propulsion system similar to the Astrobees, arrived on the ISS last year to help with research projects.

Its AI capabilities enable CIMON to see, hear, talk, and comprehend – learning and developing additional capabilities the longer it’s around crew members.

Robots learning from humans as they hover around them on a space station – never seen that movie before.

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