How about a Free-floating (Artificial) Intelligence?
The first ever AI-based astronaut assistant – a 5kg free-flying plastic sphere called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN) – has passed its first tests on the International Space Station with astronaut Alexander Gerst.
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