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The first Android robot in space will be Japanese
The Japanese robot Kirobo (from Kibo-Nadezhda) will be the world's first Android to visit the space (however, the Americans had Robonaut , but for some reason everyone writes that Kirobo will be the first). The Japanese Space Agency hopes to launch it for the ISS in the fall of 2013. As reported on the project’s website , the creators of Kirobo see his mission in that single people have the opportunity to communicate - at least with robots. The weight of the robot is about a kilogram, height is 34 centimeters. He is able to understand and reproduce Japanese speech, and his main mission will be the entertainment of the Japanese cosmonaut Koichi Vakata, who will already plow the cosmos on board the ISS. The Kirobo website will be posted video 12 tests that will have to go through the robot before going into flight. Now the description of one test is available - to the tolerance of loads and weightlessness (the second video below). Like all decent astronauts, Kirobo also has an understudy - Mirata. Here they are, handsome: