FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) is a Russian robot that is quite humanoid and quite skilled in different areas. Watch the video!
(FEDOR Humanoid Robot To Join Russians In Space)
It is planned that by 2021 Fedor adapt to the new manned spacecraft and will begin flight tests.
According to Vice-Premier of Russia Dmitry Rogozin, Android is able to independently choose the best solution to the problem and, if necessary, the operator can take control.
Of course, humanoid robots have been popular since the earliest science fiction movies, but everyone alive today remembers C3PO.
(Threepio and Artoo regarded by gate control)
Fans of early cinema might also remember the female robot from Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis.
(Female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis)
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't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
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'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.' - Rog Philips, 1950.
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Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
Elon Musk Wants Data Centers In Space
'Internally it’s made up of millions of components, but the most important ones are the thinking and memory parts of the Mind proper.'
Origin F1 Humanoid Robot's Facial Skin
'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.'