Kirobo
Small humanoid robot sent to the ISS in 2013 to converse with astronauts, demonstrating social robotics and speech interaction in space.
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Kirobo Robot Launched to the International Space Station
In August 2013, a consortium comprising the University of Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corporation, Dentsu Inc., and JAXA launched Kirobo, a small humanoid robot capable of speech recognition and natural-language conversation, to the International Space Station aboard HTV-4 to serve as a conversational companion for Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.