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Sunday, December 08, 2019

Emotion Sensing Empathetic Robot in Space

An empath assistant.   Will this be a function of all future assistant models as well.  Or a dangerous, too close to home idea?   Good experiment in a closed context.

Emotion-sensing robot headed to International Space Station to aid astronauts' mental health
An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors is headed to the International Space Station after launching in Florida, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit.

Key points:
CIMON is built with a raft of software designed to enable emotion recognition

It will test technologies that could prove crucial for future crewed missions in deep space, where long-term isolation poses risks to astronauts' mental health

Engineers say the concept was inspired by a 1940s comic series about a robot named Professor Simon

The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion 2, or CIMON 2, is a spherical droid with microphones, cameras and a slew of software to enable emotion recognition.

The droid was among 2,585kg of supplies and experiments aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, whose launch had been delayed from Wednesday (local time) due to high winds. .... "

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