Kirobo robot has first space chat on board ISS
Robot Chats ... from Space
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Japan's robot astronaut Kirobo has performed its first mission at the International Space Station
Kirobo is holding a series of conversations with a Japanese astronaut and keeping him company.
Footage released on Thursday shows the first humanoid robot in space making small talk with the commander of the International Space Centre, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. The conversations are part of a series of experiments aimed at testing the robot's autonomous conversation functions.
Instead of voicing pre-programmed phrases that respond solely to specific questions, the robot, who is called Kirobo, is programmed so that it can process the question being asked - and in turn select its own words from its vocabulary to construct an answer. Despite ...
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