NASA has built a 6ft 2in “superhero robot" that it named Valkyrie. Robots like this one may be the first to be sent to Mars before humans arrive on the Red Planet, says NASA's Nicolaus Radford.

Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like they can crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 120 kilograms, NASA’s Valkyrie robot is an intimidating figure.

Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like they can crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and ...

UMass Lowell students and researchers are programming one of only four robots in the world that NASA hopes will allow us to one day live on Mars. For the next two years, “Val,” short for Valkyrie, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA originally created its Valkyrie robot to compete in a competition for search-and-rescue robots. Now the organization is trying to make Valkyrie better ...

Six teams will go head-to-head to build the ultimate disaster relief robot. The challenge: to compete in eight different tasks for the chance at a $2 million prize. This is Valkyrie, built by the ...

If successful, human workers can expect to work side-by-side with humanoid robots. With the appearance of a robotic superhero and a name from Norse mythology, Valkyrie (aka R5) is certainly ...

Apptronik has thus developed Valkyrie, a humanoid robot measuring almost 1.90 m and weighing around 140 kg, designed to operate in particularly challenging environments. At present, it can walk ...