NASA Valkyrie (R5)

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A fully electric humanoid robot built by NASA's Johnson Space Center, officially designated R5.

Valkyrie (officially designated R5) is a fully electric bipedal humanoid robot that NASA's Johnson Space Center began developing in October 2012. It was originally built to compete in DARPA's Robotics Challenge (DRC), which tested robots on disaster-response tasks like driving a car, opening doors, and climbing ladders, with a working prototype finished by July 2013. It stands about 1.87 m tall, weighs about 129 kg, has 44 degrees of freedom, and its battery lasts about an hour. At the DRC trials in December 2013, a network failure left it scoring zero points. NASA subsequently redirected the project toward space applications, with the idea of having humanoids do preparatory work on other planets before astronauts arrive: it has both run a simulated-robot competition based on Valkyrie's model and, in 2015, sent two physical R5 units to research teams at MIT and Northeastern University. Valkyrie is considered a classic research platform for humanoid whole-body control, balance, and teleoperation.

Also called: Valkyrie, R5
Related: Humanoid Robot · DARPA Robotics Challenge · Whole-Body Control · Boston Dynamics Atlas (Hydraulic) · Bipedal Robot · Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Sources: Valkyrie (robot)（Wikipedia）
VALKYRIE R5 Fact Sheet（NASA）
As of: 2015