My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station The Russian national space agency has strapped a hefty humanoid robot weighing 160kg (353lb) to a rocket and launched it to the International Space Station. At 0338 UTC on Thursday, a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying supplies and science experiments for the ISS. The only …
“Thankfully, it won’t be doing that in space. Instead the bot will be carrying out menial tasks, such as connecting electrical cables, and using tools like screwdrivers and spanners under zero-gravity conditions.”
A 5’ 11” robot does not need guns: it can just as easily remove bits off squishy humans with a screwdriver.
Yes, like inserting malware into the guidance system, sabotaging experiments, covering the solar panels with a special fluid that gradually turns opaque in the sunlight . . . you know, menial tasks.
On a side note, anybody wonder why absolutely nothing was said about this launch before it was successful ? Nobody was talking about this a week before launch, and it would have been a great attention-grabber, don't you think ?
Maybe the Soviet Union still lies in the shadows, ensuring that only good news gets out. It the rocket had failed, we might never have heard about this.
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Yes, like inserting malware into the guidance system, sabotaging experiments, covering the solar panels with a special fluid that gradually turns opaque in the sunlight . . . you know, menial tasks.
Do you have a problem with Russians or Russia, Pascal? Why would they do any of the above?
My thoughts are that Fedor sounds too much like Fagor, the gun-toting autonomous robot in Earthsearch!
In a weightless environment you don't really need something designed to be able to cope with obstacles like stairs, and the like. You need something optimized to move in such environment and manipulate things around it - in any direction. An octopus-like design would be more functional, IMHO, albeit probably far more scaring for its human companions....
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"An octopus-like design would be more functional"
Maybe if it was autonomous, but this one is a remote controlled avatar designed to mimic the actions of a human operator, so it makes sense if the arms and head are in a humanoid configuration to match the operator's hand-eye coordination.
> it makes sense if the arms and head are in a humanoid configuration to match the operator's hand-eye coordination
Absolutely, and that's why our cars, aircraft and boats are all shaped like human bodies. And it's a good thing they put arms and legs on those flying drone things too - how else would we be able to operate them? Not to mention how humanoid submersible ROVs have revolutionised everything from pipeline laying to wreck surveys.
Have you ever used a pen tablet? Human hand-eye coordination works really rather well in unnatural suitations, given a little bit of practice.
Who said it was built for weightlessness? "ISS-specific robots" is a tiny, insignificant market; I think they just sent it up there for tests and PR (the fact it will only stay there for a short time seems to confirm this), the main use of this robot would be on earth, and humanoid configuration allows it to be as versatile as possible (able to replace similarly configured humans and use their equipment and installations).
" the main use of this robot would be on earth"
Perhaps the real test is to see if it can survive an unassisted re-entry, land without damage, and still shoot two pistols at once. If so, just imagine how an entire army of them could assist humanity in the future...
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From what I've seen of "Fedor" - if indeed it is representative of Russian state of the art robotics - they are decades behind their western and Asian competitors. Just look at Boston Dynamics' two-legged bots running around in snow covered landscapes, more nimbly and steadily than many humans. I haven't been able to find any video of Fedor even talking a single step, and in most footage it is tethered to keep it from falling over. It also seems Fedor has no autonomous capabilities; it's either pre-programmed for specific movements (like the target shooting scene) or remote controlled by a human. Even Aibo was more advanced here. Clearly this is more of a photo opportunity than any major advance in robotics - makes for good headlines(!) and cool looking social media bait, with more than a hint of Russian machismo (there's even a video of Fedor lifting weights in a gym).
You will know they have advanced beyond childish posturing when their bots stop looking like a prop out of Hardware.
What use would a humaniod robot of any kind have inside a space station? In zero gravity a tripod or quadripod with ducted fans would make a hell of a lot more sense. Substitute the fans for gas ejectors for use outside the space station. The extra limbs would allow the robot to hold on to or push against objects for positioning and leverage, so that it can perform work with another arm. And please don't tell me they need a human shaped robot in order to operate equipment on board; most human interfaces will be connected to a computer anyway, which you do not need a robot to operate - nor do you need to look like the Terminator in order to turn a valve or open a hatch. Fedor makes no sense whatsoever on the ISS. Think about it. I just can't stop laughing at the thought of Fedor trying to move around while floating in zero-G - a whole new definition of totally and utterly useless :D I bet you a zillion spacebucks that it will spend its entire time aboard firmly attached to the spot.
You seem to be banned from Google, Lomax. The most interesting will be filmed, ok, for sceptics too, if Fedor aka Skybot F-850 wlould have managed to swipe through the joint hatch and not to break his(!) heart apart because of the first meeting of so different Spacemen outside the Home. That'd be a truly Sure Real United Nations Type Space Joint.
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