The Fund promising studies have begun to create the basic robotic multipurpose platform Android. Such a robot would be able to work in a hazardous environment.

About creating with participation of the Foundation for advanced studies robot-Android previously notified and the adherents of the Creator - NGOs ' Android technique". Now that work on the creation of such devices are told and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. "In this work we have to concentrate all our best forces and minds to ... create serial robotic designs, superior key characteristics similar to the West", - he said at the forum "tehnoprom-2014" in Novosibirsk.

Other details of the project Deputy Prime Minister did not disclose, adding only that the reflections of pessimists about the loss of leadership of the Russian Federation in the field of robotics is not "almost no real basis". "Since Soviet times in this matter was created satisfactory backlog", - RIA Novosti Rogozin's words.

According to the statement of the Creator, the robot can be useful for working in a hazardous environment, even on atomic object, to take in all of this sample of polluted air and soil, to study them and transfer the acquired data for 5 km. Robot will be managed by the operator by using the helmets of a virtual reality" from a safe location. Helmet will ensure stereovision and output of data about the current state of the robot or surrounding environment, promises Creator.

Talking about the value of robots for the development of domestic industry, Rogozin suggested that the far East robotized production does not require human intervention. "Even some obvious our desertedness in the far East we have to propel to the creation of robotized manufactures unmanned production, automation", - stated the Prime Minister. Among other things, he remembered about his old plan to create automated ice station on the Arctic shelf.
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