It is conducted by the NGO "Android Technology" - the developer of the robot "Fedora" that flew into space"
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The NGO " Android Technology "(the developer of the robot "Fedor" that flew into space) has started manufacturing a robot of the project "Teledroid" to perform work in outer space. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.
"The work [on the production of the robot] has already begun on December 1, 2020," the press service noted.
The company added that the contract for the creation of the robot with Roscosmos has not yet been signed. "Now the contract is at the final stage, the entire technical part has been signed. It remains, in fact, to sign the legal and economic part, " the press service explained.
The first block of work on the project consists of the development of working design documentation and the creation of several prototypes of the robot.
In October last year, the NGO "Android Technology" told TASS that the first sample of the robot for open space will begin testing in the second half of 2021. At that time, the company was working on the appearance of the device, its components, and the protocols for docking with the ISS. Earlier, the executive director of the NGO "Android Technology" Yevgeny Dudorov told TASS that the Teledroid robot will be controlled not only from the ISS, but also from Earth, and the avatar costume will be improved taking into account the wishes of the astronauts.
