Skybot F-850
The Skybot F-850 is an anthropomorphic robot from the Russian space program . He serves as a "test passenger" for test missions in preparation for manned space flights. Skybot is a variant of the Russian military robot type Fedor (short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research ).
development
Fedor has been developed and built by the Russian company Android Technics and the military research organization Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (FPI or FARP) since 2014 . According to Russian state media, it was originally said to be a rescue robot for disaster victims, but Fedor was also shown during shooting training. The robot can be controlled with sensor gloves and video glasses in a " first-person perspective ".
The FPI is also developing the Marker robotic main battle tank .
commitment
On August 22, 2019, Skybot F-850 took off with the unmanned spacecraft Soyuz MS-14 for the International Space Station (ISS). There he spent a few days in the Russian part of the station, where cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin demonstrated the control of the robot. On September 6, the spacecraft with Skybot landed safely in the Kazakh steppe southeast of Sheqasghan . Soyuz MS-14 was a test mission for converting Russian ISS feeder flights to a newer version of the Soyuz rocket .
A Skybot will also be on board for the Federazija, which is planned for 2022 .
first flight of the spacecraftIn the long term, Russia is also planning robot missions to the moon in preparation for manned moon landings in the 2030s.
See also
supporting documents
- Российский робот "Федор" получил новое имя перед полетом в космос . RIA Novosti , July 17, 2019 (Russian)
- Russia's FEDOR robot to spend 1.5 weeks in space - Roscosmos . TASS , July 21, 2019 (English)
- This robot could be the future of Russian space exploration . Russia Beyond , July 26, 2019
- Video of a Fedor shooting training on YouTube , April 2017
- Soyuz MS-14 aborts docking with ISS . Russian Space Web
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russia testing experimental robotic combat platform. TASS, July 9, 2019, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Soyuz MS-14 to test new upgrades, ferry Skybot humanoid robot to Station werk = Nasaspaceflight.com. August 22, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
Other web links
- Roskosmos video about the planned use of Skybot F-850 at Soyuz MS-14 on YouTube (Russian)
- Recording of the Soyuz MS-14 launch with Skybot on YouTube F-850 (Russian)
- Skybot on board the ISS; Soyuz MS-14 decoupling on YouTube , SciNews, video from September 6, 2019