SpaceyOT: ISS's newest crew member...Cimon the robot
"Talking intelligent drones that accompany astronauts on space missions are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Cimon, a free-flying ball-shaped robot with a smiling face, an appreciation of music and a vocabulary of more than 1,000 sentences, is set to join the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
Short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, Cimon is designed to float and fly around the ISS offering technical help, warning of system failures and dangers, and providing a source of entertainment.
He has an artificially intelligent brain, an eight inch display screen, and uses propeller-driven thrusters to move about in weightless conditions.
The white droid, which weighs 5kg and is the size of a medicine ball, will also have a special pal on board the space station, German geophysicist Dr Alexander Gerst.
As part of an experiment to see how man and machine can work together, Cimon will be programmed to recognise Dr Gerst’s voice and face, and even play the astronaut’s favourite music."
Credit: Belfast Telegraph, February 26, 2018
February 27th, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
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February 27th, 2018 at 9:08 AM ^
Better than most Spartys and Buckeyes.
February 27th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
Maybe MSU and OSU got together on the design and each provided 500 hundered sentences. "Oh yeh, eff you!" or some variation are half of them.
February 27th, 2018 at 9:18 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:19 AM ^
Anybody else watched the pilot episode? It was aired once and only once on national TV and then pulled from syndication because it forecast a very different show than the one that originally aired.
In the pilot Dr Smith was not the campy character played for laughs. He was an evil spy sent in to program the robot to kill the entire Robinson family once the spaceship was launched. He got trapped on board and then had to stop the robot but was unable to do so before the robot knoocked the ship off-course hence their being "lost in space."
But the never aired second episode had at least two of the family members dead and took a VERY dark path, completely unlike the show it turned out to be. Audience feedback from those that watched the shows as they were originally intended/filmed was negative (too dark they said) so they completely rewrote EVERYTHING to make Dr. Smith a bumbling, lighthearted and sexually ambiguous stowaway and the robot a friendly helper.
February 27th, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
Gary Oldman tried to kill the crew (one almost died) and he was far from campy.
February 27th, 2018 at 12:27 PM ^
I don't think I could ever envision Gary Oldman playing a campy character. Between playing Sirius Black, a Soviet terrorist trying to hijack Air Force One, Commisioner Gordon, Winston Churchill, and not to mention an actual evil Dr. Smith, I don't think the man has one funny bone in his body.
But my dear lord is he an amazing actor.
February 27th, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
I don't specifically remember those plot lines, but do know that Prof Smith was never to be trusted alone - whether with the robot, any of the kids, or on the spaceship.
BTW, Judy was hot.
February 27th, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:43 AM ^
....new school....
February 27th, 2018 at 9:13 AM ^
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February 27th, 2018 at 9:34 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:22 AM ^
were spent trying to solve actual problems on Earth.
Let the negs commence.
February 27th, 2018 at 9:24 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
Extra primo good, Mr Coleman sir.
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February 27th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
that we can thank NASA and the space program for...
Memory foam
Wireless headsets
CAT Scanners
Computer mouse
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
And a bunch more...
February 27th, 2018 at 9:51 AM ^
Um... those are underwhelming at best? I love science and want my 7 year old to go into a science related field, but isn't this money better spent on renewable energy or cancer research?
Why aren't advances in those fields highlighted on this blog?
February 27th, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^
I don't know where those two are, but they can stay there.
February 27th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
What medical advances would not have been possible without a CAT scanner? Or even the simple computer mouse? You underplay science you don't care about at the expense of what you do care about. It all matters. Personally, I wish Congress would get out of the way of genetically modified foods. But whatever...
February 27th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 11:41 AM ^
Because all money is doled out from a single source and money "misspent" in one endeavor leaves less for another? That's specious reasoning.
February 27th, 2018 at 12:13 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
It's pretty clear from your recent posting pattern that something or someone at the blog has gotten you unbelievably buttsore and you're expressing it with petty shots at "this blog." You even started an entire thread whining about why the Billy Graham thread wasn't nuked. Care to share with the class?
February 27th, 2018 at 9:51 AM ^
Adult diapers? I could be wrong, but still...
February 27th, 2018 at 9:41 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
on a talking space robot, invest a few more million and give it a vagina.
Those guys are lonely up there ffs.
February 27th, 2018 at 9:33 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:45 AM ^
reason Musk and Branson are trying to make commercial space flight viable.
First class, low earth orbit, sex cubicles.
February 27th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
You just have to shorten it - the Geo Club... (Or the Leo Club, if you're on an elliptical orbit.)
February 27th, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
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February 27th, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
A couple of motors and a remote control should animate these things enough for you, Hatter...
February 27th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
Did anyone see Ex Machina, wasn't that part of the plot....
February 27th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
This was an excellent movie btw
February 27th, 2018 at 9:42 AM ^
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