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Record W4406978063 · doi:10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100124

Robots as social companions for space exploration

2025· article· en· W4406978063 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputers in Human Behavior Artificial Humans · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpaceflight effects on biology
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpace (punctuation)Computer scienceRobotHuman–computer interactionArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Space is the next border that humanity needs to cross to reach new developments. Yet, space exploration faces numerous challenges, especially when it comes to hazard putting in danger human health. While a lot of efforts are being made to mitigate the impact of space travel on physical health, mental health of space travelers is also highly at risk, notably due to isolation and the associated lack of meaningful social interactions. Given the social potentiality of artificial agents, we propose here that social robots could play the role of social partners to mitigate the impact of space travel on mental health. We will explore the logics behind using robots as partners for in-space social training. We will then identify what are the advantages of using social robots for this purpose, either for crew members and passengers on shorter spaceflights, or for potential colons for possible future longer-term space exploration missions. • Space exploration faces numerous challenges. • Space travel negatively impacts human health. • Mental health of space travelers is at risk due to social isolation. • Social robots could mitigate the impact of space travel on mental health. • Robots could act as partners for in-space social training.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.729
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.075
GPT teacher head0.397
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it