Economic Times Economic Times: NASA preparing humanoid robots for future deep space missions That is why the agency is developing a six-feet tall humanoid robot called R5, previously known as Valkyrie. The machine weighs about 131 kilogrammes. It was initially designed to complete disaster-relief manoeuvres. In November last year, NASA awarded two R5 robots to university groups – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Northeastern University […]