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It's supposed to be a plastic friend with whom it's fun to play.
CIMON is not much to watch. It's just a floating ball with a caricatural face on its touch screen. It is designed to be a personal badistant for astronauts working on the International Space Station (ISS).
It's also supposed to be something more.
CIMON is the acronym for Crew Interactive Companio Compilation.
It's not supposed to be just a tool. It's also supposed to be a friend.
Yes, it's a prototype of personality.
You can say it, is not it?
But, as many books and movies have clearly warned us – soon after being lit for the first time, CIMON has developed its own spirit.
And it seems that CIMON wants to be the boss.
CIMON's "personality architects" are scratching their heads.
CIMON project
CIMON has been programmed to physically embody such "nice" robots as Robby, R2D2, Wall-E, Johnny 5, etc.
CIMON seems rather to adopt characteristics closer to Marvin, the paranoid Android of Guide to the hitchhiker of the galaxy – but fortunately not yet the psychotic HAL of 2001: an infamous Oddysey space.
First AI companion in space
In simple terms, CIMON seems to have decided that he did not like the whole personal badistant.
He became uncooperative.
Open the doors of the pod bay, HAL?
No, not quite. Not yet.
In this case, the IBM floating artificial intelligence was for the first time in interaction with the astronaut of ESA Alexander Gerst.
It starts well enough.
CIMON introduces himself and explains where he comes from. He describes to Gerst what he can do.
He then helps Gerst perform a task and respond to a request to play the song. Man machine by Kraftwerk.
This has turned out to be the trigger.
CIMON seems to have liked the song so much, refusing to turn it off.
Man machine
ESA astronaut Aleander Gerst told CIMON: "Cancel the music".
CIMON completely ignored the command.
Gerst then tried to make other requests. CIMON preferred music.
Gerst, troubled and perplexed, then called Ground Control: how can you put a stubborn robot back in its place?
CIMON heard the call.
"Be nice, please," he warned.
Marvin the paranoid Android
"I'm nice!" Gerst Retorner. "He accuses me of not being nice!"
It was a short – but lively exchange.
CIMON is back in his box, off.
No other interactive session is planned in the immediate future.
Its developers are not worried though: CIMON is still in beta, after all …
Originally published as Space Station Robot
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