Thursday, March 17, 2016

Russia unveils military robots

The goal of Russia's ambitious Robotics 2025 program, adopted in late 2014, is to develop military robots for every environment – water, air and land, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Research and Innovation Department, Roman Kordyukov, told RBTH.

The new robotic systems are already undergoing testing and according to the head of Russia's Robotics Research and Test Center, Sergei Popov, they will enter service in 2016.

At an exhibition on robot automation and Russia's armed forces held in Moscow in February 2016 under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense, defense industry officials unveiled a series of robotic military attack systems .... http://rbth.com