CIMON's work sent to the space station was disabled because it began to threaten

Only hours after lighting the CIMON robot in orbit, the cosmonauts had to turn it off. The car had to be a friend of the crew of the International Space Station and help it. Instead, she began to behave as if she wanted to capture her.

On the outside, CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) looks like a sphere with a screen that displays a funny face. It is an experimental robot that should show the possibility of interaction between astronauts and assistants on the basis of artificial intelligence. The robot should not only be an instrument, but also become a friend of astronauts, much like movie sound bots – Robby, R2D2, Wall-E.

Currently, astronauts are forced to go to their laptops and follow instructions whenever they are experimenting or performing other operations. CIMON could save a lot of time by giving them tips and tricks.

CIMON's behavior was hostile and was more reminiscent of the cyber-dissolution of HAL from the Cosmic Odyssey saga. Like the literary character of HAL 9000, the CIMON robot refused to answer the simplest demands.

Astronaut Alexander Gerst asked the car to play the Man Machine track for the Kraftwerk group. When the astronaut gave the order to stop the music, the robot refused to perform it. The car added: "I love music, you can dance underneath".

Gurst also attempted to entrust CIMON with other duties, but the car ignored them. CIMON also tired of these teams, and he warned Gerst, "You do not like being with me, do not be so angry, please."

The engineers decided not to further develop the conflict with CIMON and simply disable it. Until now, it was not planned to reactivate the robot and the 90-minute communication session between the astronaut and the robot was considered a success.

CIMON weighs about 5 pounds and is made in three-dimensional printing. It was developed by the German space agency DLR, as well as by specialists from Airbus and IBM. The robot works on the principle of Apple Siri or Google Assistant digital assistants. In this process, CIMON does not run locally – the information is analyzed by the IBM Ground Server with Watson software. To do this, the robot's signal is transmitted from the ISS to the control center in Columbus, Germany, from which it is retransmitted to the Swiss Space Support Center of Biotechnology Space Support Center in Lucerne, then falls into the "cloud" from the IBM cloud in Frankfurt.