Space Station welcomes free-flying, Ubuntu-powered autonomous robots
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NASA has deployed three free-flying "Astrobee" robots on the ISS for house-keeping tasks. The bots run Ubuntu/ROS and Android 7.1 on Snapdragon-based Inforce modules and a Wandboard and feature 3x payload bays, 6x cameras, and a touchscreen. We haven't heard a news from the IBM Watson connected CIMON social robot since it debuted with a ["]