Yevgeny Dudorov, Executive Director of NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika, reported that in 2023, on the basis of the technopark factory in the city of Bor in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a special zone will be created where robots and unmanned trucks will be tested. DEA News.
According to him, the first “no-population zone” of this kind, “most likely”, will appear in the technopark based on the Boravtosteklo initiative.
“There, he needs to test the operation of various platforms in autonomous mode: a wheeled and tracked chassis and the same “Beacons” on the unmanned vehicles themselves, said Dudorov.
He also noted that to create such a special zone at the moment, Androidnaya Tekhnika together with NIIMA Progress is developing the Consul integrated navigation system, which will use not only ground-based but also space navigation aids.
As Dudorov noted, “due to such integration, conditions will be created for a “perfect” system of navigation and communication, which will allow the creation of a number of “unmanned areas” in Russia. For example, the latter M-2, M-11 highways or other federal It could appear along roads, and these unmanned trucks could be launched “after a while,” he added.
Former Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Dmitry Ministerov reportedHe said that KamAZ plans to introduce an unmanned truck this year to conduct an experiment on autonomous goods delivery on the M-11 Moscow-Petersburg highway.