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.

7: Apollo, the general purpose robot The co-founders of Apptronik worked on the NASA Valkyrie robot project in 2012 to 2013. From that star-studded heritage comes Apollo, a general purpose ...

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

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.

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 ...

At first, they focused on contracts with NASA, working on a second iteration of the Valkyrie robot that never got off the ground, and other government contracts, including building exoskeletons ...

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 ...