NASA's New Robot Looks Like Iron Man!

NASA's Johnson Space Center just pulled back the curtain on its entry in the DARPA robotics challenge—and, holy shit, it is awesome. This 6-foot tall, 275-pound humanoid robot is built for disaster. Valkyrie's two cannon-like arms are interchangeable, and its legs are designed to walk over rough, uneven terrain. It's equipped with cameras on its head, body, forearms, knees, and feet, not to mention with additional LIDAR and sonar units. While it operates via remote right now, the ultimate goal is to make Valkyrie as autonomous as possible. It's hard not to see that glowing circle in the center of its chest and not think about Iron Man.

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Last Edited by The Fourth Horseman on 12/10/2013 07:36 PM