Russian space № 11 (2012)

Today, the world's cosmonautics is increasingly inclined to believe that it is necessary to develop robotics.

Executive and hardworking machines, controlled by an automatic program or commands from the Ground, do not need food and drink and are able to work in extremely unfavorable conditions.

Valery Pavlovich Bogomolov, head of the Laboratory of Space Robotics at the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, talks about the development of Russian robotics and the current problems of the industry.