alexey alexandrovich kabanov, director of the institute of radio electronics and intelligent technicalparticipation: the ultimate goal is to create a fundamentally new type of machine, completely independent. the robot must not only be there, let’s say, with its manipulator bury itself in the ground, it must perform an operation in a technological sense, make the required weld, or turn some spare part on the surface of this technical object, if we say let us idealize the picture to the limit, it is exactly the same, that is, without any wired communication, the robot is autonomous, autonomous both in terms of energy supply and, most importantly, in terms of its functional control system, so it autonomously performs a technological operation under water, and on those depths that are inaccessible to a diver. sevastopol bay: the pier is closed from prying eyes by a high fence, after a long check of documents we manage to get on board the ship, which until recently was one of the most secret in the country. we're on board the first russian drone ship, its speed is small 10 knots, this is 2