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Indigenously built Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) is going to make its first flight very soon as the developers have overcome a software-related hurdle, which was delaying the launch. 
 As per reports, <keyword id="3618825" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="hindustan-aeronautics-ltd-made">Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd-made</keyword> 3.1 tonne prototype LUH will replace Cheetah and Chetak fleets of the armed forces. 
The launch will take place in Bengaluru. 
 
"We are now ready to take the chopper in the air. All hurdles have been crossed and now it is only a matter of the right day when all conditions are good for a first flight," a senior official involved in the project told ET. 
 
The LUH is a military project and the works were on since 2008. The testing was done in 2015. 
 The LUH will carry troops and supplies to border areas as presently, the <keyword id="112134" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Armed-Forces">Indian Armed Forces</keyword> require over 200 choppers in its fleet. 
 
The manufacturing of the choppers is expected to begin from 2018. The chopper is powered by a Shakti engine made in collaboration with French company Turbomeca. A new production facility is to be built for the LUH project.

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If the talks go through, <keyword id="2852683" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="russian-helicopters">Russian Helicopters</keyword> may make around 140 choppers in India. 
 In a major breakthrough to <keyword id="2257489" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="PM-Narendra-Modi">PM Narendra Modi</keyword>’s ‘<keyword id="6354869" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="make-in-India">Make in India</keyword>’ initiative, Russian Helicopters is in talks with Indian counterparts for a contract for 200 choppers, out of which over 140 will be made in India. 
 
"We are now discussing terms and conditions for the contract and copter configuration," said Igor Chechikov, deputy CEO of Russian Helicopters (RH). 
 
The remaining 60 will be supplied from RH's existing manufacturing facilities in Russia. 
 
The work on 140 choppers will be planned out with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and other partners. 
 
The helicopters will be made in India under a pact signed by Modi during his visit to Moscow in December. 
 
The choppers will be supplied in collaboration with Rosoboronexport, a state export agency. 
 
The ongoing discussions include the scope of setting up a helicopter plant in India which will be in partnership with a number of Indian entities including HAL. 
 
"We expect to produce more helicopters from India, given the country's demand for a wide range of defence and security related equipment," Chechikov said, pointing to the potential of growing the joint venture business as well as technology and knowhow between the two countries. 
 
India has a fleet of over 450 Russian helicopters operating all of which were supplied over the last three decades in various phases. 
 
He also stressed on supporting the Russian hardware by establishing an after sales maintenance hub in India in the coming years. 
 
"India is a very strategic market with a huge demand for helicopters," he said at the Singapore Airshow 2016. 
 
Russian helicopters are widely used by the Indian air force, navy and border security force. 
 
RH is showcasing a wide range of its technology-savvy helicopters and aircraft at the air show for the South East Asian markets.

Russian Helicopters may make choppers in India soon!

Moving an inch forward in ‘<keyword id="6354869" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="make-in-India">Make in India</keyword>’ initiative in defence production, Gurgaon-based <keyword id="340571" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Sun-Group">Sun Group</keyword> may partner with Russia to make light helicopters. 
 
If everything goes as planned, 200 Kamov Ka 226 light helicopters may replace the ageing Cheetah fleet, which services one of the world’s highest military deployments on the Siachen glacier. 
 
Economic Times reported that work on the Russian deal, by nomination, had begun after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit last year in December and assurances were exchanged at the highest levels to look into this project. 
 The facility may come up in Goa as a feasibility study was conducted to set up a chopper line in the coastal soon after <keyword id="6363133" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Manohar-Parrikar">Manohar Parrikar</keyword>, former Goa CM, took over as defence minister. 
 
If the deal works out, it would be the second major defence project for the state. Parrikar had already announced that the Goa Shipyard was nominated to construct 12 minesweepers for the Indian Navy in a contract that is expected to cost over $1 billion. 
 The financial daily stated that while <keyword id="2852683" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="russian-helicopters">Russian Helicopters</keyword> (RH) is in talks with a handful of possible Indian partners, the lead contender happens to be the Gurgaon-based Sun Group. 
 
As per insiders, the group may get a significant share of the deal, which might cross a whooping amount of $700 million. RH is likely to produce at least 200 choppers in India. 
 However, the company is also planning to involve <keyword id="86569" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hindustan-Aeronautics-Limited">Hindustan Aeronautics Limited</keyword> (HAL), and partnerships with other private firms are not ruled out. 
 
Vice-Chairman and founder of Sun Group Shiv Vikram Khemka has been a non-executive director on the board of RH since 2011 and has already set up a helicopter division. He is likely to be involved in the ‘Make in India’ project. 
 
While the Sun Group did not respond to a detailed questionnaire sent by ET, company officials said things were at a preliminary stage and it was too early to comment. 
 
But according to sources, Sun Group was also an offset partner for RH in a previous competition to supply light choppers to the army, a process which was cancelled by the government last year. 
 
Defence ministry officials, on the condition of anonymity, told ET that the RH deal had effectively killed any other light helicopter project for the armed forces, including a process that was initiated earlier this year for an Indian-led JV to manufacture a new range of choppers. 
 
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<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-10-year-plan-lunar-base-saturn-moon-2019-7">NASA is developing a bunch of robots</a> it wants to send to space.</li><li>Some are humanoid like the RoboSimian and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-robot-robonaut-2010-8#and-tweeting-10">Robonaut</a> 2, but other bots, like the Ice Worm and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/astrobee-cube-robot-space-station-2017-3">Astrobee</a>, are more abstract.</li><li>Arguably the most famous robot on its way to Mars is the Mars 2020 Rover. It's about the size of a car: 10 feet long, 7 feet tall, and 2,314 pounds of pure robot.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a> </li></ul>Following is a transcript of the video.Narrator: In February of 2011, the International Space Station was home to six astronauts and one Robonaut. Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space.Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?Narrator: It spent about four years on the space station before it had a hardwire malfunction in 2015, and then another three years lying broken and creepy until NASA retrieved it in 2018. After a round of repairs, it's set to return to the space station later this year, but it might not be alone, NASA has a full slate of other wonderfully weird robots it wants to send to space in the near future, and luckily none of the rest participated in a beefcake photo shoot no one asked for.This is Dragonfly. The first multirotor vehicle from NASA that will ever set foot, er, ski, on another planet. Part robot, part space drone, Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Rivers, lakes, and seas across its surface are filled with not water, but liquid methane and ethane.Titan is the only place in the solar system besides Earth with standing bodies of liquid. But there are places along the surface that contain evidence of past liquid water and the complex molecules key to producing life, that's what Dragonfly is after. During a 2.5 year mission, the rotorcraft will land in the Shangri-La dune fields and make its way to the Selk impact crater where scientists believe the ingredients for the recipe for life once existed.The coolest part? Titan has the capacity for life as we know it, and life as we don't. The evidence of water shows habitable conditions for life-forms similar to those on Earth, but the liquid methane and ethane could also be home to life, just nothing we've ever seen before.Dragonfly will focus on both in order to better understand the origin of life in the universe. It's set to launch in 2026 but won't arrive until 2034. LEMUR is more like the mother of robots than its own thing, but we're counting it anyway.LEMUR stands for Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot, it's got four limbs and was originally conceived as a repair robot for the International Space Station. It uses 16 fingers covered in hundreds of tiny fishhooks, plus a sprinkle of artificial intelligence to scale walls and avoid obstacles.The original project ended in 2019, but technology from LEMUR is being used in other robots that still have the potential for space travel.The Ice Worm could be the name of a terrible superhero, but in this case it's a little squiggly robot. It's derived from a single LEMUR limb and it moves by scrunching and un-scrunching, just like an inchworm. It's part of a family of projects in development to explore Saturn's and Jupiter's icy moons.The worm drills into the ice, end over end in order to climb or stabilize itself while collecting samples. It also inherited its mama's AI, which helps it navigate by learning from past slipups.Another LEMUR kid is the RoboSimian. Originally designed as a disaster-relief robot, this humanoid bot has the same four limbs as LEMUR, but its feet are a little different. Instead of grippy feet, the robot, nicknamed King Louie, has wheels made with piano wire that help it roll over uneven ground.That's especially helpful in icy environments like Saturn's moon Enceladus, which is what it's being developed for now. RoboSimian can walk, crawl, inch, and even slide on its belly like a penguin. All to meet the challenges presented by silty, breakable ground.Some micro-climbers use LEMUR's fishhook technology to cling to rough surfaces; others use gecko-like adhesive to climb smooth walls. All of them are pocket-sized vehicles strong enough to survive 9-foot drops.The gecko-inspired tech relies on van der Waals forces, which are basically what happens when you stick a balloon to your head with static electricity, but on a molecular level. NASA hopes to use these little guys to repair spacecraft or explore hard-to-reach spots on the moon, or Mars, or anywhere really.Arguably the most famous robot on its way to Mars is the Mars 2020 Rover. It's about the size of a car: 10 feet long, 7 feet tall, and 2,314 pounds of pure robot. It's based on Curiosity, the NASA rover that landed on Mars in 2012. Relying on a proven system cuts down on costs and risks.The new rover will continue to search for past and present habitable conditions and signs of life. But it's bringing to the table a new drill that can bore holes in the surface and store the soil and rock samples for later use. Potentially a transport from Mars back to Earth so they can be studied in labs, but the rover won't be roving all alone.Inside the Mars Rover will be a little MOXIE, or the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. Its job is to prove it can make oxygen on Mars for fuel and breathing - like a happy little robot plant. Mars' atmosphere is made up of about 96% carbon dioxide, no good for humans. This car-battery-sized version of MOXIE will only be able to produce about 10 grams of oxygen per hour. Future oxygen generators will need to be about 100 times larger for manned missions.Introducing the Mars Chopper. The small, solar-powered helicopter will, fingers crossed, be the first in history to prove heavier-than-air vehicles can fly on other planets, and that's basically its sole purpose. Just like MOXIE, it will act as a proof of concept for future missions. The challenge is that Mars' atmosphere has 1% the density of Earth's, making it nearly impossible for helicopters to fly at all. So far it's passed a number of important tests that give scientists hope that they'll be able to defy the laws of physics.But even if it can't fly, the chopper will basically be the parrot to the Mars Rover's pirate. Engineers are developing grippers that will allow the copter to cling to cliffsides, a lot like a bird perches on a branch, and surprise, it's another LEMUR baby. Its feet use the same fishhook technology as the four-limbed bot.There's one more robot already up in space that needs to "bee" included. It's called Astrobee, and I think that's reason enough for why we have to mention them. There are three Astrobees: Honey, Queen, and Bumble, obviously. Bumble and Honey shot up to the Space Station in April 2019, and Queen followed regally in July.The free-floating cubes were designed to alleviate some of the more routine tasks that astronauts complete daily, like taking inventory or moving cargo. But they'll also be competing with Robonaut 2 for the title of Weirdest Robot in the International Space Station.

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