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 […]
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NASA Valkyrie R5 Robot Will Compete – But Only Against Itself (Update)
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 […]
Posted inExploration
NASA's Multimillion Dollar Dancing Droid
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 […]
Posted inEducation
Can Students Fix What NASA Can't?
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 […]
Posted inRobotics
Is JSC's R5 Droid Worth Fixing?
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 […]
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Using a Last Place Robot for NASA's Robotics Challenge
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, […]