Valkyrie, humanoid robot, NASA Johnson Space Cente, Houston, Texas, USA

**Airicist** · 11th December 2013, 17:30

Officially designated "R5" by NASA

nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/valkyrie

**Airicist** · 11th December 2013, 17:45

Article "NASA JSC Unveils 'Valkyrie' DRC Robot"

by Evan Ackerman
December 10, 2013

**Airicist** · 11th December 2013, 17:47

Valkyrie: NASA's Superhero Robot

Published on Dec 10, 2013

Meet Valkyrie, NASA JSC's DARPA Robotics Challenge humanoid robot.

**Airicist** · 30th August 2014, 00:20

NASA Valkyrie Mechatronic Development - UT Austin Contributions on Design

Published on Aug 24, 2014

This video shows various stages of the making of NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie. The Valkyrie humanoid robot was built at NASA Johnson Space Center by a medium size group of of mechanical, electronic and embedded systems designers and with leadership from Nic Radford and Rob Ambrose. The Human Centered Robotics Lab at UT Austin provided expertise in the design of rotary series elastic actuators and inspiration for the design of the linear series elastic actuators on the robot's ankles and torso. In particular, the linear series elastic actuators were inspired by the UT-SEA design developed during Nick Paine's thesis as a high performance series elastic actuator. UT Austin also provided expertise on developing robust force controllers of the series elastic actuators and thorough testing on torque tracking and joint position impedance control.

**Airicist** · 12th February 2015, 04:22

Valkyrie stepping and one legged balance, December 2014

Published on Feb 11, 2015

Valkyrie robot at IHMC taking some steps and doing one legged balance routine. Robot is designed and built by NASA JSC. Control algorithms by IHMC. Funding for IHMC provided through NSF/NASA National Robotics Initiative.

**Airicist** · 26th June 2015, 15:27

NASA Wants Help Training Valkyrie Robots to Go to Mars

Published on Jun 26, 2015

NASA has big plans for its Valkyrie humanoid robot.
Learn more:
"NASA Wants Help Training Valkyrie Robots to Go to Mars"

by Evan Ackerman
June 24, 2015

**Airicist** · 23rd September 2015, 18:13

Valkyrie at DARPA's Robotics Challenge Finals on June 6 2015

Published on Sep 23, 2015

**Airicist** · 19th November 2015, 08:58

Article "NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions"
Team led by Professor Russ Tedrake of CSAIL to develop algorithms for 6-foot-tall “Valkyrie” robot to travel to Mars and beyond.

by Adam Conner-Simons
November 17, 2015

**Airicist** · 30th November 2015, 21:28

Meet R5 Valkyrie

Published on Nov 30, 2015

**Airicist** · 7th April 2016, 21:46

NASA Valkyrie robot assembly time lapse

Published on Apr 6, 2016

On April 6, 2016, NASA delivered a Valkyrie robot to UMass Lowell's NERVE Center. Researchers from Northeastern University (Taskin Padir and Robert Platt) and UMass Lowell (Holly Yanco) are collaborating to develop new capabilities for the robot.