Russia is creating the "New Technological Coalition" (NTC) association, which will unite companies and universities to develop anthropomorphic (humanoid) robots. This was reported by Vedomosti on October 18. At the first stage, participants invested about 404 million rubles and plan to attract from 2.4 to 4 billion rubles of additional investments.
The NTC intends to include Promobot, Double Yu Expo, Idol, Robot Corporation, Perm Polytechnic (PNIPU), Kazan Technical University (KAI), St. Petersburg LETI, and Tomsk University TUSUR.
Alexey Yuzhakov, co-founder of Promobot and founder of Double Yu Expo, said that the coalition will focus on creating a domestic technological platform and localizing key components for the production of humanoid systems. The Collective Use Center of the Federal Center for Unmanned Aviation Systems will also be involved in the project.
Each member of the association will take on a separate area: Promobot will handle the industrial base and platform solutions, Double Yu Expo will handle human-machine interaction systems, Idol will handle stabilization and movement technologies, and Robot Corporation will handle implementation and feedback from customers.
The project involves creating a fully Russian platform with its own architecture, software, and critical nodes. The launch of the NTC is scheduled for mid-November; the preparatory stage is currently being completed and a program of research and development work is being formed.
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