Valkyrie (robot)
Valkyrie (German: Walküre ) is a humanoid robot developed by NASA with various partners . Design and development of the robot named R5 by NASA began in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . The aim was to create a robot for future NASA missions, either for use before humans arrive - for example on other planets - or as an assistant robot for human teams.
An alpha version was completed in July 2013. The approximately 1.87 m tall and 129 kg heavy robot has 44 degrees of freedom . Both of his hands have a thumb and three other fingers. It is controlled by three Intel Core i7 Express CPUs . Data is exchanged with the outside world via Ethernet or WiFi . The battery allows about an hour of autonomous work.
At the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in December 2013, the participating Valkyrie robot could not achieve any points; a network problem was reported as the reason.
In mid-2015, NASA announced that it would provide two research teams with one R5 robot each. The tender was won by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University . Both teams will receive - in addition to a Valkyrie robot - half a million US dollars each over two years.
Valkyrie is equipped with PMD sensors .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evan Ackerman: What Happened to NASA's Valkyrie Robot at the DRC Trials, and What's Next . IEEE Spectrum , August 27, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Evan Ackerman: NASA Wants Help Training Valkyrie Tobots to Go to Mars . IEEE Spectrum , June 24, 2015 (English)
- ^ A b Nicolaus A. Radford et al .: Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot . Journal of Fields Robotics, Volume 32 Issue 3, pages 397-419, May 2015 (English)
- ↑ Evan Ackerman: NASA Awards R5 Valkyrie Robots to MIT and Northeastern . IEEE Spectrum , November 18, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Radford, Strawser, Hambuchen, Mehling, Verdeyen, Donnan, Holley, Sanchez, Nguyen, Bridgwater, Berka, Ambrose, McQuin, Yamokoski, Hart, Guo, Parsons, Wightman, Dinh, Ames, Blakely, Edmonson, Sommers, Rea, Tobler , Bibby, Howard, Nui, Lee, Conover, Truong, Chesney, Platt Jr., Johnson, Fok, Paine, Sentis, Cousineau, Sinnet, Lack, Powell, Morris, Ames: Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot . In: Prof. Aaron D. Ames, Texas A&M University . Archived from the original on August 15, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 13, 2015.
