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Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot fails to dock with international space station
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- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot failed to dock automatically with the international space station.
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- 2nd attempt: The craft launched a repeat of the docking manoeuvres after the failure of the first attempt, which had been scheduled for 0530 GMT.
- Fedor:(1) Fedor is a acronym for “Short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research”.(2) Fedor is the first ever sent up by Russia. Fedor blasted off in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was to stay on the ISS until September 7.(3) The life-size robot was to spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts in the space station.(4) The silvery anthropomorphic robot stands 1.80 metres (5 foot 11 inches) tall and weighs 160 kilogrammes (353 pounds).(4) Fedor has Instagram and Twitter accounts with posts saying it is learning new skills such as opening a bottle of water. It was to trial those manual skills in very low gravity.
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The Hindu