The current ISS crews
eagerly await the arrival of an unusual member of the space expedition. Today,
August 4, went into space the world's first talking robot Kirobo. This Japanese
34-inch robot was launched to orbit the International Space Station from the
island of Tanegashima in using booster H-2B.
This cute android with
a face resembling a Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will arrive at the
ISS later and become a member of the 38th space mission, was created by an
engineer Tomotaka Takashi, in close collaboration with Toyota, which provided
for the android Kirobo their software that reproduces human speech.
The creators of the
unique android report that will now be sent to the ISS its robotic androids in
the partner program with the countries participating in the project of the
International Space Station.
Japanese astronaut
Wakata, in turn, will be the first Japanese who will become commander of the
ISS crew.
"Robot Rirobo will
remind the person of Japanese astronaut Wakata, so when they are together, they
will be very similar to each other," - said the robot creator Tomotaka
Takashi.
Kirobo will be the
first robot who went on board the ISS. Its dimensions are: height - only 34
centimeters (less than a newborn baby), weight - 1 kg. The robot is programmed
to communicate only in Japanese and record conversations with Japanese
astronaut Wakata. Other members of the crew of the ISS, unfortunately, will not
be able to understand the robot.
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