Robot and astronaut bid farewell on International Space Station

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata bids farwell to an unusual colleague, a robot named Kirobo, on the International Space Station. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata bid farwell to an unusual colleague, a robot named Kirobo, as the astronaut prepared to leave the International Space Station after a six month mission. As part of his mission, Mr Wakata held experiments on robot-human conversations with Kirobo, the first talking humanoid in space. Kirobo is programmed to process questions an