Saturday, September 27, 2014
The humanoid robot
from NASA just might be mistaken for a superhero it resembles like the Marvel's
superhero Iron Man.
Valkyrie a 6 foot 2 inch tall (1.9 meters)
robot with a glowing NASA logo on its chest. A team of engineers at NASA's
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex. designed and built Valkyrie in just nine
months.
This robot was developed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge and is designed to help humans during disasters. To test its capabilities, the DARPA competition will test Valkyrie through a variety of situations that it might encounter in life and death situations. It needs to drive a vehicle, clean up debris, cut through a wall and perform other tasks to show that it has the right stuff.
"We want to get to Mars," the team
leader for Valkyrie, Nicolaus Radford told IEEE
Spectrum in a video about the robot. "Likely, NASA will send
robots ahead of the astronauts to the planet. These robots will start preparing
the way for the human explorers and when the humans arrive, the robots and the
humans will work together in conjunction building habitats laying foundation
and just work together. Technologies such as
Valkyrie are going to really lead into the type of robotic systems that will
one day be the precursor missions before the astronauts go to Mars."
wow, it would be a great help for space program
ReplyDeleteis this robot a female type?
ReplyDeleteit is inspired by a female first responder wearing body armor
Deleteman robots are taking over!
ReplyDeleteIt's a girl actually :))
DeleteCool !
ReplyDeleteyes it is , :)
ReplyDeleteNice robots :)
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