<p class="title">A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot on Saturday failed to dock automatically with the international space station, Moscow news agencies reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The craft launched a repeat of the docking manoeuvres after the failure of the first attempt, which had been scheduled for 0530 GMT, the agencies said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Live broadcast of the event on the Russian space agency Roskomos was interrupted with the Soyuz spacecraft about 100 metres (109 yards) off the ISS.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The life-size robot, named Fedor, was to spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts in the space station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, Fedor is the first ever sent up by Russia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fedor blasted off Thursday in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was to stay on the ISS until September 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Soyuz ships are normally manned on such trips, but this time no humans were travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instead of cosmonauts, Fedor, also known as Skybot F850, was strapped into a specially adapted pilot's seat, with a small Russian flag in hand.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Let's go. Let's go," the robot was heard saying during launch, repeating the famous phrase used by first man in space Yuri Gagarin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The silvery anthropomorphic robot stands 1.80 metres (5 foot 11 inches) tall and weighs 160 kilogrammes (353 pounds).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fedor has Instagram and Twitter accounts with posts saying it is learning new skills such as opening a bottle of water. It was to trial those manual skills in very low gravity. (AFP) AMS AMS</p>
<p class="title">A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot on Saturday failed to dock automatically with the international space station, Moscow news agencies reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The craft launched a repeat of the docking manoeuvres after the failure of the first attempt, which had been scheduled for 0530 GMT, the agencies said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Live broadcast of the event on the Russian space agency Roskomos was interrupted with the Soyuz spacecraft about 100 metres (109 yards) off the ISS.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The life-size robot, named Fedor, was to spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts in the space station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, Fedor is the first ever sent up by Russia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fedor blasted off Thursday in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was to stay on the ISS until September 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Soyuz ships are normally manned on such trips, but this time no humans were travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instead of cosmonauts, Fedor, also known as Skybot F850, was strapped into a specially adapted pilot's seat, with a small Russian flag in hand.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Let's go. Let's go," the robot was heard saying during launch, repeating the famous phrase used by first man in space Yuri Gagarin.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The silvery anthropomorphic robot stands 1.80 metres (5 foot 11 inches) tall and weighs 160 kilogrammes (353 pounds).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fedor has Instagram and Twitter accounts with posts saying it is learning new skills such as opening a bottle of water. It was to trial those manual skills in very low gravity. (AFP) AMS AMS</p>