Akin

Develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) space crew with personas working together to help astronauts with complex system tests.

MiscellaneousAI HelperSoftwareRobot Astronaut

Created: 2020-12-22

Updated: 2025-09-06

Classification

Miscellaneous

Category

AI Helper
Software

Fields

Robot Astronaut

Status

Active

First launch

Not announced

The Australian Space Agency has awarded a•kin a grant to build helper and inspector robots, and an AI habitat manager.

a·kin LABS build AI with advanced reasoning and emotional IQ for NASA.

Akin has developed advanced AI and robotics for the space industry, to act as long-duration assistants and companions.
Our AI software fills the roles of:

• Helper AI: performing complex tasks,
• Companion AI: acting as a member of a social group,
• Ambient AI: running a habitat and optimizing for wellbeing (decision core).

The constraints of space compel significant innovation. In space, compute power is scarce, and data has to be moved around in slow and costly packets.

AI developed for the space sector has to be highly compliant, able to reason through things with minimal human support, all while functioning in low-compute, low-data environments. They cannot simply turn to brute-force statistical learning systems as used in large language or multimodal models.

Status Comment

Space page on the website as of September 2025.