Valkyrie
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.
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