ST.PETERSBURG. March 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The system of robot units developed at the VNIItransmash JS is undergoing trials successfully, leading experts of the company doctor of technical science Mikhail Malenkov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
The system is to be used in radiation-contaminated and other hazardous zones. The units were developed in cooperation with the Moscow-based NIKIMT state unitary enterprise. The product was accepted by a special commission headed by an official of the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry.
The system consists of two robot units, each of them powered with accumulator batteries and remotely controlled with in-board television systems.
The unit comprises a transportation robot with special equipment, mobile control post mounted on a standard kung-type wheeled vehicle and a covered trailer for the vehicle that is to be used for transporting the robot to the operation site.
Both robots were developed on the basis of self-propelled chassis designed as far back as 1986 at the VNIItransmash company, its principal objective being to liquidate consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Malenkov said that new trailers with active hub-wheels were to be launched in the near future.
Malenkov added that the robot systems could be efficiently used by experts of the Atomic Energy Ministry and other ministries and departments.