NASA’s Valkyrie Humanoid Busting Fresh Moves Courtesy of IHMC (VIDEO)

Feb 162015
 
NASA's Valkyrie Humanoid Busting Fresh Moves Courtesy of IHMC (VIDEO)

Next to Team SCHAFT’s new Google overlords withdrawing them from further competition, the poor showing of NASA’s Valkyrie robot might have seemed the DRC Trials’s biggest disappointment, but it’s nowhere near that simple: NASA JSC and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) are keeping the flame alive, and by flame we’re talking like…nuclear blow-torch.

 February 16, 2015  Posted by at 2:43 AM Boston Dynamics, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, Here First or Best Here, Military Robotics, NASA, NASA JPL, NASA JSC, Robonaut, Robot, Robot Space Torso, Robots in Space, Space Technology, Technology

Know Your Robot Space Torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA

Feb 222013
 
Know Your Robot Space Torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA

Gangly, multi-jointed arms aren’t going to cut it – we need humanoid robots in space. Robonaut2 is currently the only one up there (props, NASA), but there are others in the works, and they’re getting good – let’s check in.

 February 22, 2013  Posted by at 10:55 AM General Motors, Human Augmentation, ISS, NASA, Robonaut, Robot, Robot Space Torso, Robots in Space, ROSCOSMOS, Space Technology, Technology, Telepresence