CRDI Robotics and Technical Cybernetics 2008

The Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC; ) is one of the leading research institutes in Russia. Located in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

, it specializes in software and hardware development, and in robotics and technical cybernetics. Special design bureau for technical cybernetics was formed on the base of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University on January 29, 1968. In June 1981, the bureau was transformed into the RTC. RTC participated in the development of the

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control system for the spacecraft

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and the robotic probe

Luna 16 ''Luna 16'' was an uncrewed 1970 space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. The 101 grams (3.56 ounces) sample was returned from Mare Fecundit ...

. In 1986–1987, the institute created mobile robots for radiation reconnaissance and liquidation of

Chernobyl Chernobyl, officially called Chornobyl, is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to the north of Kyiv and to the southwest of Gomel in neighbouring Belarus. ...

accident consequences. In the early 1990s the institute participated in the development of the manipulator for the spacecraft Buran.

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