Russian space robot offers look at rise of 'Terminator' style military droids

You're right, that robot in the photo does look like a Terminator robot. And that's probably not an accident

Russian officials have been working for years to get a new breed of military robots up and running. But in a statement last week, Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister of Russia, indicated that the country wants to move that robotics race into the arena of space

The avatar robot, called Fyodor, can be seen at work in its first public test in a video that surfaced online in January

"We've launched work to create an avatar that will become a crew member of the Russian national orbital station," Rogozin said in a statement (translated in a report from RT) on the website of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Studies Read more...