This Space Roomba Will Free Astronauts From Cleaning The ISS

Not a very desirable job

Cleaning the inside of the International Space Station (ISS) is not a very attractive task for anyone.

But recently, GermFalcon - a private company which is specializing in sanitizing tech for airplanes has come up with a way to help the astronauts on the ISS to skip that mundane task. They have made an autonomous space cleaner names GermRover (kinda like those Roomba devices). They designed it to clean the walls inside the ISS with sterilizing UV rays that could kill off any type of harmful microbes.

The developer of the robot Elliot Kreitenberg has said in an interview with New Scientist that:

The Filthy International Space Station

Previously, we have had the report from Futurism on how the sanitary condition on the ISS could get nasty.

According to some research which was just published earlier this month, as of the moment, the International Space Station is full of fungal colonies and bacteria. They even found out that some of these bacteria are also antibiotic-resistant. That adds even more problem to the whole matter.

They had taken samples from 8 places on the ISS in a period of over 14 months. With that sample size, they have found from 10,000 to a billion forming units. That means fungal and bacterial cells are capable of reproducing that much per square meter.

GermFalcon and NASA are working together on the testing phase for GermRover. Next month, GemFalcon will also present a prototype of the device in Las Vegas at the Aerospace Medicine Association conference next month.