Gun-toting, car-driving robot astronaut removed from Twitter after accusing human cosmonauts of...

A Russian-built humanoid robot that flew to the International Space Station (ISS) has been removed from Twitter after insulting former cosmonauts and accusing them of drinking in space.

The space robot Fedor (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) served aboard the ISS for 10 days in August but was sent back to Earth after it proved incapable of performing a space walk.

Prior to its mission to the space station, former Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin shared videos of Fedor appearing to show it driving a car, lifting weights and shooting guns.

The life-sized robot, who is officially known as Skybot F-850, had an active social media presence but was abruptly removed following a barrage of tweets aimed at former cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Alexander Samokutyayev, who now serve as lawmakers.