December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
...Kokorich was inspired to create the company after meeting the lateRoscosmos director Vladimir Popovkin at the International Astronautical Congress in Capetown in 2011. After obtaining a licence for space production, by the end of 2012, Dauria had won...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...systems with automated functions in order to remove the human error liability possible or desirable? And although replacing astronauts with robots might reduce the inconvenience and costs of the necessary life sustainment functions required in manned...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
...ROOM’s managing editor Clive Simpson during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, to discuss... objective. Is it important for UAE to have its own astronauts? Mars 2017 is an initiative by the government to create ...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
...of his spaceflights with all of us on Earth. Apollo astronaut and moon walker Alan Bean was also a very talented ... to be through art, but I’m confident that all of the new astronauts will feel compelled to share it in their own way. We must not...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
...actually a single camera lens located at the approximate centre of the eyes. Kirobo is the first Japanese robot-astronaut developed by the University of Tokyo. The robot’s capabilities include voice and speech recognition, natural language processing...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behavior and performance Skills). As it sounds, CAVES involves astronauts from around the world staying underground in a Sardinian cave for six days to work on multi-cultural approaches...
