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Like a worker bee… Autonomous flying robot in the international space station

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The International Space Station ISS functions as a place for various experiments and verifications in extraterrestrial microgravity space. For this reason, CIMON, a concrete helper robot developed by the German Aerospace Center DLR and Airbus and equipped with IBM Watson, has also tested its performance.

This time, the square robot Astrobee is conducting an experiment against astronaut Christina Cook. The robot is in charge of supporting the crew while driving autonomously inside the ISS.

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Astrobi moves while avoiding obstacles by recognizing obstacles with the camera by pushing the air out through the internal fan. According to the RFID sensor and voice instructions, the cargo can be moved using a small arm, and when the work is finished, it returns to the charging station by itself and waits for the next mission. Soon, robots called Honey and Queen Bee will also join. There is no difference in appearance or color, but maintenance work is done inside the ISS like three worker bees.

In the initial setting of Astroby, it is said that the internal structure of the ISS cannot be remembered unless a human hand-held picture taken while walking around the ISS is processed as a map. The amount of mapping data is too large, or at least it cannot be accurately mapped. Once this step has been successful, it will be possible to start working as soon as the remaining 2 gigabytes share data. Related information can be found here .

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