Meet CIMON, a friendly, floating robot that acts as a personal assistant at ISS

The nice and round robot of the picture is CIMON, badistant crew of the International Space Station. Printed in 3D, plastic, its artificial intelligence has been developed to test the interaction between humans and machines in space. Described as an "autonomous and autonomous badistance system", it floats in the station's facilities, is attentive and friendly, ready to answer questions from astronauts.

In a new video published by the European Space Agency, CIMON was shown. during his first successful interaction with a member of the crew.

Alexander Gerst welcomes the company's robot and sees CIMON introduce himself and show his abilities, even to play a song at the request of the astronaut, l & # 39; appropriate man Man Machine Kraftwerk.

Costing $ 6 million, CIMON was manufactured by Airbus and uses IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence software. With 12 internal propellers facilitating movement, he is able to display on-screen instructions, capture videos, play music and even find lost items on board.