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Tue, Feb 16th, 2016
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Astro droid? Russians build human-like super-robot for remote-controlled spacewalks
WATCH: “We believe humanoid robots with synthetic vision and AI in perspective is not a fairytale, ” Rogozin said,
A remotely-operated robot reproducing the minutest particulars of a human doing complicated work will be taken into space to do dangerous jobs in orbit. An operational prototype has been demonstrated to the Russian government’s military sci-tech curator.
Military robots under development in Russia won’t be limited to the battlefield only: space applications will have priority, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters last weekend.
“We’ve launched work to create an avatar that will become a crewmember of the Russian national orbital station, ” Rogozin said.
The robot will be able to do spacewalk without armor and do different jobs while its operator remains safely inside the station.
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Another prototype is an anthropomorphic platform needed to develop
human-like mobile equilibrium, kinetics and complex coordination of
manipulators. This prototype is simultaneously operated by an operator
and programs and can automatically restore vertical position when it
falls.