Saturday, January 24, 2015

NASA's Valkyrie robot

NASA's Valkyrie robot
The newest humanoid robot from NASA just might be mistaken for a superhero.

The space agency's new Valkyrie a 6 foot 2 inch tall (1.9 meters) robot with a glowing NASA logo on its chest bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel's superhero Iron Man, but this space age automaton was built for work, not comic book heroics. A team of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex., designed and built Valkyrie in just nine months, according to press reports.


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