Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts

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WASHINGTON: An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from ...

WASHINGTON: An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit.

"The overall goal is to really create a true companion. The relationship between an astronaut and CIMON is really important," Matthias Biniok, the lead architect for CIMON 2, told Reuters."It's trying to understand if the astronaut is sad, is he angry, joyful and so on." While designed to help astronauts conduct scientific experiments, the English-speaking robot is also being trained to help mitigate groupthink — a behavioural phenomenon in which isolated groups of humans can be driven to make irrational decisions."Group-thinking is really dangerous," Biniok said.

 

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