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CIMON at Europe

Crew Interactive Mobile Companion: a free-flying spherical ISS crew-assistant built by Airbus (funded by DLR) using IBM Watson for natural-language interaction. Activated and controlled by astronaut voice command ('wake up'); it is a voice assistant with autonomous free-flight station-keeping, NOT an autonomous agent. CIMON-1 demonstrated on the ISS from 2018-06-29 and returned to Earth 2019-08-27; CIMON-2 launched 2019-12-05 (later operational status not publicly confirmed).

CIMON by Airbus · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

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European operational deployment. CIMON operations.

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Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
Last updated
2026-06-08
Model
CIMON
Company
Airbus
Location
Europe
Status
operational
ID
f1b88064-7823-4aca-8ab7-6d315ac40a0b

Sources (1)

  1. https://rover.report
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-08

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-06-08

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: research

Lifecycle: discontinued

Architectural position

Cohort: space

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Common questions

What is the CIMON deployment at Europe?
CIMON, built by Airbus, is recorded as a deployment at Europe on the DEPLOY registry. Airbus operates the deployment directly.
Who operates CIMON at Europe?
Airbus, the manufacturer of CIMON, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
Have there been incidents at the CIMON deployment at Europe?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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