Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has released a list of ambitious plans, including moon exploration, a methane-fueled rocket creation program and… a fleet of centaur-like robots.
The latter is one of the agency’s concepts for autonomous systems that will perform tasks on the surfaces of other planets, Alexander Bloshenko, the executive director of Roscosmos, told the state-run TASS news agency Monday.
The device will be a walking wheeled truck with an anthropomorphic torso that can roll and step over obstacles. These anthropomorphic robots will be able to copy their human operator’s movements with the help of a special device, Bloshenko said.
“Anthropomorphism will be in demand for performing non-standard tasks,” he said.
A prototype of such a truck was first created in the U.S.S.R. at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics. The new Roscosmos concept is based on this prototype, Bloshenko said.
Roscosmos is now planning to create a testing ground for these half-horse, half-human robots here on Earth, Bloshenko said. Let’s hope they stay in their testing areas and don’t venture out into the real world.
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“The latter is one of the agency’s concepts for autonomous systems that will perform tasks on the surfaces of other planets,”
One very large problem with this. Muscovy have never even landed on the moon, never minds another planet. I suggest they try the simple thing first, like landing on the moon. Leave the planets for the experts.
Maybe this centaur could help the Moskali learn to make cheese, underwear or toilets so they could enter the 18th century.
They will only land on boyz’ bellies…
None of those, for the Russia, far-fetched plans will come to fruition. They lack the money and they lack the smarts.
And if they did develop something like this they would just use it to further ruSSi mir and invade someone.