Japan is developing its own robot for the ISS

The other day, the Japan Aerospace Agency Jaxa announced its intention to add one more to the group of cosmonauts on the ISS - just not a person, but a robot. With all this, the robot will not be engaged in some kind of complex scientific and technical tasks, studying outer space. No, this robot will study the psychological state of astronauts, and write about the results of their work in their own microblog on Twitter. According to Jaxa, the robot will also photograph the Earth. By the way, as far as I remember, it was the Japanese cosmonaut on the ISS who took up photographing the Earth from orbit, then putting pictures into his account on Twitter. Apparently, the Japanese decided to use this robot, and the astronaut to close access to Twitter and Facebook in the workplace to give an additional task.



It is interesting that the robot will also be able to communicate with the astronauts with a voice - it will recognize speech, and even be able to follow the emotional tinge of a person’s voice. According to the developers, such a robot will be able to perform some of the functions of a psychologist, determining the psychological state of fellow humans, plus studying the general situation on the ISS. If suddenly the robot finds out that some of the astronauts are under stress, then they will quickly inform about it “where necessary”.

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Let me remind you that soon another robot will be working in orbit, this time an American one. It was developed by General Motors, giving its brainchild a name - Robonaut 2. This robot, according to plan, will participate in the conduct of scientific research, assist in repairing the ISS, recording all its actions for transmission to Earth. Robonaut 2 does not have a voice system, so it will only communicate using the station’s computer system.



According to the developers of space robots, in the future, these devices can not only help astronauts to perform routine tasks, but also control the astronauts in space.



In general, it looks like by 2015 some of their fellow robots will be in orbit with the astronauts. "Japanese" will get on the ISS no earlier than 2013, but his American counterpart will soon work at the station. By the way, you can follow the actions of Robonaut 2 in his Twitter account. Now the robot has more than 20 thousand followers on the microblogging service.