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 "name": "CIMON, the astronaut assistant",
 "group": "adjacent",
 "class": "language",
 "location": "spoken to on the space station, answered from Earth",
 "operator": "German Aerospace Center (DLR)",
 "developer": "Airbus, with IBM",
 "host": "International Space Station",
 "catalogue": null,
 "dates": {
  "launched": null,
  "ran": "15 November 2018",
  "reported": "2018-11-16",
  "ended": null
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 "hardware": "a free-flying device on the station; the language AI ran in IBM's cloud on Earth",
 "software": "IBM Watson",
 "did": "Talked with an astronaut on the station, with the understanding of speech done on Earth over a satellite link.",
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   "text": "CIMON uses the Wi-Fi on the ISS to transmit data, making use of satellite connections to ground stations to establish an internet connection with the IBM Cloud.",
   "speaker": "Airbus",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "airbus-cimon",
   "url": "https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-11-crew-assistant-cimon-successfully-completes-first-tasks-in-space",
   "source_title": "Crew assistant CIMON successfully completes first tasks in space",
   "publisher": "Airbus",
   "source_kind": "press-release",
   "published": "2018-11-16",
   "published_basis": "date given in search results; the release itself describes 15 November 2018",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "wayback",
   "read": "in part: three sentences of 7,700 characters"
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  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "The heart of the AI for understanding speech is the IBM Watson system.",
   "speaker": "German Aerospace Center (DLR)",
   "relation": "operator",
   "source": "dlr-cimon",
   "url": "https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/projects-and-missions/horizons/cimon",
   "source_title": "CIMON: astronaut assistance system",
   "publisher": "German Aerospace Center (DLR)",
   "source_kind": "project-page",
   "published": "2018-06-08",
   "published_basis": "page metadata",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: one sentence of 2,900 characters"
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 "conflicts": [],
 "notes": "Beside the register, like the drives planned for Perseverance: an AI used in space whose model ran on Earth. Whether any of its software ran a model on the device itself was not looked into.",
 "changed": "Added beside the register on 4 October 2026.",
 "headline": ""
}