RIA Novosti Photos Tell the Story of Soviet and Russian Robot Technology

On May 7, the exhibition “Robots: First Steps and New Achievements. RIA Novosti Photo Archives Tell the Story of Soviet and Russian Robot Technology” is to open at Moscow’s Polytechnical Museum. Photo: A dreamer at a young technicians’ club. Moscow, 1981.

Visitors to the Polytechnical Museum will see archive photos of exhibits that are now history, as well as the latest achievements of national robot technology. Photo: A REM robot on display at the international exhibition “Scientific and Technological Creations of Young People – 1974” in Moscow.

The exhibition features 23 black-and-white photos from RIA Novosti archives, as well as archive videos and newsreels dating back to the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s.

Robots developed at a young technicians’ station in Kaliningrad take a walk around the city. 1969.

A specialist works with a manipulator arm at a laboratory of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Tashkent, 1975.

A specialist conducts a human bio-currents registration experiment during a project to develop a robot. Krasnodar, 1980.

A specialist tests a robot manipulator arm at the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrument Engineering. 1972.

A Lunokhod lunar roving vehicle, which was developed by young inventors from the Russian city of Kursk, displayed at the All-Union Exhibition “Creations of Young People.” Moscow, 1971.

Specialists work on a walking robot with an automatic data-transmission function, designed to explore areas that are difficult to access. Moscow Institute of Management Problems, 1971.

A system for modeling robots of the “eye-hand” type. Engine room at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1979.

Functioning robot models developed by participants in the All-Union Exhibition “Creations of Young People” from Kaliningrad. Moscow, 1971.

Specialists test the Aist (Stork) system of spacecraft manipulator arms at the Central Research Institute of Robot Technology and Technical Cybernetics. St. Petersburg, 1992.