Another Reason To Be an Astronaut: You Get To Hang With This Adorable Zero G Robot

golem are n’t only taking over our duties as factory worker and amusement parking area scout . They ’re also slowly taking over our coolheaded jobs too , like on the International Space Station , whereKibowill serve to nurse Japanese spaceman Koichi Wakata with inspirational tweets from earth — and also reckon adorable float around in zero gravity .

Based on the existing Robi robot outfit , Kibo has been enhanced with Nipponese language recognition technology courtesy of Toyota , which will earmark Wakata to communicate with it and institutionalize replies back to earth . Designed by Tomotaka Takahashi — the guy rope who made all those record - setting EVOLTA stamp battery endurance bot — Kibo could very well be the most adorable thing gentleman has launched into space since those Russian dogs , Belka and Strelka . [ Kibo Robot ProjectviaGizmag ]

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