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Valkyrie
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Valkyrie is an advanced humanoid designed to operate in degraded or damaged human-engineered environments. NASA hopes to eventually send Valkyrie into space, to the moon, and to Mars.
- Creator
- NASA
- Country
- United States πΊπΈ
- Year
- 2013
- Type
- Humanoids, Aerospace
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Did You Know?
Valkyrie's chest protects the robot if it falls forward, and houses linear actuators that can rotate the its torso. |
Valkyrie's arms and hands can be disconnected and swapped in minutes. |
Valkyrie robots are being used as research platforms in Florida, Massachusetts, and Scotland. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Electrically powered. Swappable battery. Series-elastic rotary actuators in arms and legs. Covered in soft fabric. Named after female figures in Norse mythology. Designed and built in 9 months.
- HEIGHT
- 190 cm | 74.8 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WEIGHT
- 125 kg | 275 lb
- SPEED
- N/A km/h | N/A mph
- SENSORS
- Carnegie Robotics Multisense SL in head, secondary head cameras, torso cameras, shin cameras, knee lidars, six-axis force-torque sensors in feet
- ACTUATORS
- Five series-elastic rotary actuators and and two linear actuators in arms. Six finger and thumb actuators. Five series-elastic rotary actuators in upper leg and two in ankles. Five series elastic rotary actuators in torso.
- POWER
- 1.8-kWh dual-voltage battery
- COMPUTING
- Two Intel Core i7s
- SOFTWARE
- Robot Operating System (ROS)
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 44 (Neck: 3 DoF; Arm: 4 DoF x 2; Wrist: 3 DoF x 2; Hand: 4 DoF x 2; Torso: 3 DoF, Leg: 6 DoF x 2; Ankle: 2 DoF x 2)
- MATERIALS
- Covered in foam and soft fabric
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/r5