Ivan the Terminator: Russia Is Showing Off Its New Robot Soldier
29th May 2016
Russia is touting its Iron Man — a humanoid military robot — in the new global arms race that has sprung up over high-tech weaponry.
“The development of a special military robot is one of the priorities of military construction in Russia,” the Russian daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported recently.
The purpose of Iron Man, the newspaper continued, is to “replace the person in the battle or in emergency areas where there is a risk of explosion, fire, high background radiation, or other conditions that are harmful to humans.”
Komsomol was the Soviet equivalent of the Hitler Youth, and Komsomolskaya Pravda was its house organ.