IBM Is Sending a Floating Robot Head Into Space

IBM Is Sending a Floating Robot Head Into Space

  • March 2, 2018
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IBM Is Sending a Floating Robot Head Into Space

Called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), the new crew member is about the size of a medicine ball and will work alongside human astronauts in space. The “floating brain” is equipped with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology and is expected to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency’s Horizons mission in June.

Source: fortune.com

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