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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''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?'' - Isaac Asimov (1940)
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Humanoid Robots Building Humanoid Robots
''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?''
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'Pina2bo would have to operate full blast for many years to put as much SO2 into the stratosphere as its namesake had done in a few minutes.'