Have you seen Star Wars?. If you have you are pretty familiar with the robot R2- D2. What was the name of the processor in R2-D2?. It was called CIMON, well apparently a new flying robot which has an AI in it named CIMON ( A Flying Droid )has been sent into space to help astronauts.

Who made the robot?

CIMON, which is the name of the AI, stands for “Crew Interactive Mobile Companion,” and it is the first robot of its kind. Designed by a collaboration of Airbus and IBM, it weighs 11 pounds and is about the size of a basketball. Still, it packs the neural network strength of IBM’s Watson supercomputer in its “brain,” reports Techcrunch.

How exactly will he help, and how does it work?

Speaking of how correctly it will help out astronauts, currently, it’s been trained to recognize the voice and face of the astronaut Gerst, who is also a geophysicist with the European Space Agency. For whom the robot is sent. Guest will be able to call CIMON, to which CIMON will respond accordingly. It has a built-in camera which is set at eye level. With the help of the camera, CIMON will be able to detect the person it is looking for. The bot’s programming can even interpret emotional states and will react appropriately. Its emotional intelligence is supposed to help monitor the psychological states of the crew.

Bret Greenstein, global vice president of Watson Internet of Things Offerings at IBM, explained that CIMON would be able to listen to astronauts and respond accordingly.

“This is designed to work in English,” said Greenstein. “It understands Alexander. It will come to him when he speaks.”

In an IBM blog post, Matthias Biniok, the lead Watson architect in Germany, elaborated on what feature does CIMON brings on the table and how exactly will it help.

“Experiments sometimes consist of more than 100 different steps,” he said. “CIMON knows them all.”

From a technological standpoint, CIMON ( A Flying droid ) features an infrared camera on its front, a microphone on the back, two batteries and an “offline” button.