ROSCOSMOS and the Android Technology company have begun testing the MARKER robotic platform at the Vostochny cosmodrome, the state corporation reports .
This robot, previously called deadly, is planned to be used in the future "as part of security structures as devices that ensure the safety of cosmodromes, enterprises and other objects of national importance."
"The formed scientific and technical reserve and technologies, including those with elements of artificial intelligence, will be used to create equipment for the exploration and development of the Moon and planets of the Solar System," Dmitry Rogozin, head of ROSCOSMOS, told Telegram.
In September, in a Forbes publication, British journalist David Hambling admitted that the latest tests of the experimental robotic platform "Marker" indicate that Russia is entering a new level of development of unmanned technologies. Thus, the publication commented on the August report of the Foundation for Advanced Research, according to which one of the wheeled vehicles of the Marker platform made a 100-kilometer march in fully autonomous mode.
The MARKER robotic platform is a joint project of the FPI and the Android Technology Research and Production association, which developed the Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research (FEDOR) product, which flew to the International Space Station in August 2019. The "Marker" should be able to work with small arms and destroy ground and air targets, and will also receive a grenade launcher. In the future, the device will be able to be equipped with drones.
Ivan Potapov
