Spacecraft carrying Russian humanoid robot docks at ISS

An unmanned craft carrying Russia's first humaid robot to be sent into orbit successfully docked at International Station on Tuesday, following a failed attempt over weekend. "Contact confirmed, capture confirmed," a commentator on NASA TV said.

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lifesize robot named Fedor -- short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research -- copies human movements, a key skill that allows it to help carry out tasks remotely. It blasted off Thursday in a Soyuz MS-14 craft from a Russian port in sourn Kazakhstan and is due to stay on ISS until September 7, learning to assist astronauts in station. An aborted docking on Saturday h increased uncertainty over future of Russia's programme, which has suffered a number of recent setbacks.

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NASA said Saturday craft h been "unable to lock onto its target at station," and h "backed a safe distance away from orbital complex while Russian flight controllers assess next steps". Russian flight controllers h told ISS crew it appeared problem that  prevented automated docking was in station and t craft, NASA ded.

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Soyuz ships are rmally manned on such trips, but this time humans were travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system. Fedor is t first robot to go into . In 2011, NASA sent up Robonaut 2, a humaid developed with General Motors that h a similar aim of working in high-risk environments. It was flown back to Earth in 2018 after experiencing technical problems. In 2013, Japan sent up a small robot called Kirobo along with ISS's first Japanese commander. Developed with Toyota, it was able to hold conversations -- albeit only in Japanese.

International Station has been orbiting Earth at about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 miles per hour) since 1998. Last October, a Soyuz rocket carrying an American and a Russian h to make an emergency landing shortly after lift-off -- first failure in history of manned Russian flights.

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