Meet Valkyrie, Valkyrie 1.
6'2. 125 kilograms. Superhero Robot
 
We really wanted to
to design the appearances of this robot to
be one that was just, when you saw it, you were going to be like:
Wow that's,  that's awesome.
So it's a 44 degree of freedom robot. Very capable
Very strong. Completely self-contained
We have a 2 kilowatt-hour battery, lots of on-board computing
Got a 7 degree of freedom arm and 6 degree of freedom hand
3 degree of freedom pelvis
And we have a 6 degree of freedom leg. 
When we were designing the robot we
we were thinking about the competition
from day one and we wanted a very modular system
Specifically with the arm, we can yank
one bolt and one connector
and we can take the arm off. It happens in
a matter of minutes
And so we wanted to be able to replace
components, major components on the robot
in under fifteen minutes
The robot is designed also such that the
arms are actually identical
so with just reconfiguring a piece on
the arm
a right on can suddenly turn into a left arm.
Power is stored in the backpack here.
We have a battery. You can pop this panel off
You can do a couple bolts, slide the battery out
slide a new battery in.
So as you can
see in the head, we've got
cameras, both LIDAR and point cloud
based camera systems
In the chest we've got cameras. We
have sonar
in the chest, in the stomach
abdomal area. We have a cameras on our
forearms for when we're grasping, so we can get a
good view from there
Moving on down we have cameras in the
knees
We've got cameras in the feet.
Pretty much
when our operators are
running the robot, any data, any piece of data,
any image
that they would want to see from what the
robot is seeing is available to our users
NASA saw considerable overlap in what
the DRC was trying to accomplish
and NASA's goals as an agency.
We want to get to Mars
Likely NASA will send robots ahead
of the astronauts to the planet. These robots
will start preparing
the way for the human
explorers. When the humans arrive
the robots and the humans will work together in conjunction,
building habs, laying foundation,
and just working together in that tight relationship
Technologies such as Valkyrie are gonna really lead
into
the type of robotic systems that will one
day be the precursor missions
before the astronauts to Mars.
Really strong and powerful robot
Superhero robot. Glowing NASA meatball. 
What more would you want?
