{"id":179455,"date":"2023-12-29T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/meet-valkyrie-nasas-humanoid-robot-enters-advanced-stages-of-testing"},"modified":"2023-12-29T15:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:26:23","slug":"meet-valkyrie-nasas-humanoid-robot-enters-advanced-stages-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/meet-valkyrie-nasas-humanoid-robot-enters-advanced-stages-of-testing","title":{"rendered":"Meet Valkyrie, NASA\u2019s humanoid robot enters advanced stages of testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-valkyrie-nasas-humanoid-robot-enters-advanced-stages-of-testing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot is being developed to offer an helping hand to astronauts, designed to operate in hostile and hazardous conditions in space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s first bipedal humanoid robot, Valkyrie, is undergoing a few of its final testing phases at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/ihmcs-nadia-a-task-ready-humanoid-robot-with-a-boxing-edge\" title=\"humanoid\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">humanoid<\/a>, much like Iron Man but constructed from metal and electronics, mimics human walking and appearance. Designed for a diverse array of functions, NASA is exploring if such machines can further space exploration, starting with the Artemis mission, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/science\/humanoid-robots-space-next-frontier-2023-12-27\/\" title=\"Reuters\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Valkyrie, named after a prominent female figure in Norse mythology, commands attention with her formidable presence. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches (188 centimeters) and weighing 300 pounds (136 kilograms), NASA is an electric humanoid robot capable of operating in degraded or damaged human-engineered environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot is being developed to offer an helping hand to astronauts, designed to operate in hostile and hazardous conditions in space. NASA\u2019s first bipedal humanoid robot, Valkyrie, is undergoing a few of its final testing phases at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. A humanoid, much like Iron Man but constructed from metal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}