Russia’s New Space Robot Can Drive, Use Tools… and Shoot https://t.co/Pt6soPSa7q #RobotsMachines #fedor #futurismvideos pic.twitter.com/IT8QT0MLfz — Maximilian (@YellowDigits) April 18, 2017 Check out NASA's Dancing #Disco Droid R5 (video) #StarWars https://t.co/ppZ02fhOJp #NASA #JourneyToMars pic.twitter.com/rglZuSkd8c — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 17, 2015 No, Russia isn’t sending a Terminator robot to the space station, Ars Technica “The reports this weekend were breathless. Mashable said Russia was sending a “death dealing” robot with […]
TAG
“R5”
Northeastern puts NASA’s Valkyrie space robots through its paces, TechCrunch (video) Keith’s update: At one point in this video Valkyrie stumbles and requires the cables to catch her – unlike the Boston Dynamics robots that can do just about anything and retain perfect balance and run around, jump, etc. But yes, I said “her”. Despite NASA JSC PAO’s reversal and subsequent stern denial about this NOT being a female-inspired robot, […]
Keith’s note: NASA’s R5 robot can’t complete any of the tasks it was designed to do and placed last in DARPA’s challenge in 2013. So NASA sent the robot to two universities in 2015 to see if some students could fix it. NASA refuses to tell you how much this robot cost, why it was developed, or how it works. But before they sent their broken droids off to college […]
This week, @NASA gave MIT a humanoid robot to develop for future space missions. https://t.co/yHzmChXRpX pic.twitter.com/SEhj2JDC7d — MIT (@MIT) November 22, 2015 Without cables this #NASA robot falls over. Hopefully #MIT Students can fix what NASA can't. https://t.co/I5F9rFHy4U https://t.co/KYIdC40Gtf — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 22, 2015 – Is JSC’s R5 Droid Worth Fixing?, previous post – NASA Awards Space Robot R&D Projects to MIT, Northeastern, TechNewsWorld – NASA wants to […]
NASA wants to make a C-3PO to help colonize Mars, which may not be a super idea, Wired “OK, but why use a bipedal robot at all? “We’re talking about sending robots to Mars, so is a walking robot best?” asks Keith Cowing, who runs the blog NASAWatch. “If you’re just landing in a flat area, why can’t it have treads and arms?” Or, if you want the dexterity that […]
Hosting of Humanoid Robots and Validation of Performance for The NASA Space Robotics Challenge Appendix “In 2012, NASA began the design and development of a new bipedal humanoid robot, R5, through the DRC. NASA seeks to advance innovation in basic and applied research and technology development for humanoid robots, like R5, with a focus on the performance of tasks related to space exploration missions. NASA seeks to advance space technology […]