Robotics news

Engineering troops use a wide range of heavy equipment. Some of the engineering machines are similar to their civilian counterparts, while others are unique developments created specifically for engineering tasks. One of such special means is engineering barrier vehicles (IMR), which are among the first to go forward in combat conditions, paving the way for the rest of the equipment.

Roscosmos Executive Director Krikalev: many ISS systems need to be changed

The International Space Station (ISS) was and remains one of the most ambitious projects in the history of mankind. On his birthday, the executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs, Sergey Krikalev, told the newspaper.Ru", how Russia and the USA interact on the project in conditions of political tension, why the station works after the end of the warranty period and how to deal with cracks that appear for unknown reasons.

The German startup Transportsysteme, founded by people from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has developed a FORMIC cargo robotic platform. Its peculiarity is that it uses the swarm principle to form a transport vehicle of the required load capacity from individual robots. At the same time, robots do not need to be assembled into a single mechanism, they retain autonomy and can quickly switch to new tasks.

The Ministry of Defense assessed the successful use of unmanned complexes during its

The Ministry of Defense has decided to increase the supply of combat robots of the Uran family to the troops, a source in the military department told Izvestia. We are talking about the complexes "Uran-6" for mine clearance and "Uran-14" for extinguishing fires.

PLA military presence in Djibouti: geopolitical and regional aspects

The leadership of the People's Republic of China has begun the practical implementation of plans to form a system of forward basing and logistical support of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) in foreign territories.

The conflict in Ukraine has brought to a new level the use of unmanned aerial vehicles of both air and sea of various types. Both sides are actively using them and are working on the development of new and improvement of existing drones.

Pibot is the name of a humanoid robot developed by the staff of the Korean Institute KAIST, capable of piloting a modern jet aircraft. At the same time, it is not necessary to make any changes to the cabin architecture.

TASS — about the bright unmanned novelties of the international military-technical forum

It is obvious that at present unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are making another revolution on the battlefield, just as many years ago it was only the planes and tanks that appeared.

More than 1.5 thousand Russian and foreign manufacturers demonstrated their products at the exhibition

83 foreign companies participated in the exhibition exposition of the international forum "Army-2023" — this is twice as much as last year.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" completed its work in the Moscow region on August 20. During the seven days of the forum, its events were attended by 1 million 93 thousand 285 people.

The Russian combat robot "Marker" acts faster than a human when using a shooting complex, this was shown by the tests carried out, follows from the report of the executive director of the NGO "Android Technology" Evgeny Dudorov.

Mikheev: Rosoboronexport has exported the underwater drone "Klavesin"

Rosoboronexport has brought more than 10 new products of the defense industry to the world market, including the underwater drone "Klavesin" and the communication complex "Nabat", CEO of the company Alexander Mikheev told RIA Novosti during the forum "Army-2023".

As the Interfax news agency reported, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" signed state contracts worth more than 400 billion rubles with defense industry enterprises and awarded them to enterprises. This was announced on August 16, 2023 by the head of the Main Armament Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Anatoly Gulyaev.

In Russia, a new unmanned boat has been developed to perform various tasks, the vessel is based on a platform of the type "Vizir". This was announced by the managing director of KMZ Holding (Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant) Mikhail Danilenko at the Army-2023 forum.

The Argus drone for the protection of underwater pipelines will be shown for the first time at Army-2023

Russia has developed the latest Argus marine drone to protect infrastructure and locate dangerous objects near underwater pipelines, the press service of the Central Design Bureau of MT Rubin told RIA Novosti on Monday.

The network has footage of the use of a robot "nurse" by the armed forces of Ukraine. This four-wheeled platform is designed to independently evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. To do this, she drives up to the wounded man, hooks him with a carbine or something similar on ammunition and begins to provide evacuation assistance.

In 2023, the exhibition exposition of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army" provides for many novelties and features.

The portfolio of unmanned boats (BEC) of Turkey is continuously expanding. New systems are being developed to meet the various needs of the Navy. The country has a balanced roadmap of unmanned naval programs focused on various scenarios of war at sea.

The Western defense industry has been trying for years to create robotic vehicles designed to transport goods. So, in 2014, during the RIMPAC exercises, the US Marine Corps tested a product from Boston Dynamics on four "paws" when transferring a match over rough terrain.

After the start of the special operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to actively use marine drones to carry out attacks on Russian ships and infrastructure. As noted in the publication Covert Shores, after a number of experiments, shock BPA began to be created on a standard base, which is represented by jet skis of the Kawasaki STX family.