{"id":9346,"date":"2013-12-11T07:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2013-12-11T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:53:47","slug":"nasa-unveils-valkyrie-robot-for-darpa-robotics-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/nasa-unveils-valkyrie-robot-for-darpa-robotics-challenge","title":{"rendered":"NASA unveils Valkyrie robot for DARPA Robotics Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Posts by Shane McGlaun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/author\/shane-mcglaun\/\" rel=\"author\">Shane McGlaun<\/a><\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\">DARPA has been hosting a Robotics Challenge since last year that challenged some participants to create robots that can be used in the real world. The official name for the Valkyrie robot given to it by NASA is R5. The bot stands 1.9 meters tall and weighs in at 125 kilograms. The robot has 44 degrees of freedom and is powered by batteries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IE-YBaYjbqY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\">The robot was created in cooperation with the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, the University of Texas, and Texas A&amp;M <a class=\"itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook\" id=\"itxthook0\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/nasa-unveils-valkyrie-robot-for-darpa-robotics-challenge-11308358\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\" id=\"itxthook0w\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid #363637; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: lightgreen; background-color: transparent;\">universities<\/span><\/a>. Funding for the robot was granted by the State of Texas. The first competition for the DARPA robotics contest will happen later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/nasa-unveils-valkyrie-robot-for-darpa-robotics-challenge-11308358\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane McGlaun, DARPA has been hosting a Robotics Challenge since last year that challenged some participants to create robots that can be used in the real world. The official name for the Valkyrie robot given to it by NASA is R5. The bot stands 1.9 meters tall and weighs in at 125 kilograms. The robot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}