Valkyrie (robot)

[1] Its design and development started in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

The primary objective was to create a robot capable of supporting future NASA missions, whether by performing tasks in advance of human arrival on other planets or by serving as an assistant to human teams during missions.

Standing around 1.87 meters tall and weighing 129 kg, the robot features 44 degrees of freedom.

Powered by three Intel Core i7 Express CPUs, it connects to external systems through Ethernet or WiFi.

The competition was won by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University, with each team receiving an R5 robot along with $500,000 in funding spread over two years.