A small humanoid robot will be sent to the International Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" to communicate with the astronauts who were there.

Quoted from Gizmag, Sunday (02/12/2012), the robot will be equipped with voice recognition capabilities
and a number of language processing developed by Toyota, other than that this robot can also send Twitter messages and sounds from Earth to Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.

The robot was designed by Tomataka Takahashi, it was revealed through a concept sketch that was released on 29 November. Known, Takahashi established ROBO-GARAGE and personally have managed Establishing dozens of robots, including some of his work is made ​​for Panasonic.

Robot ISS will undergo a number of modifications, Robi - the name of the robot, will be equipped with a camera and software that can recognize faces Wakata - Robi will also use the camera to take some photos and dikicaukannya to Earth.

Meanwhile, a project organized by Dentsu advertising agency Ic. and a research team from the University of Tokyo is expected to give an answer to menguraing stress often experienced by astronauts while in the station for a long time.

Currently, the team obtained a number of names submitted for this robot, and the project is expected to be completed in February 2013.

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