NASA's Space Robotics Challenge awarded Northeastern University with a $2-million Valkyrie Robonaut 5 (R5) robot, which is now undergoing tests in a Massachusetts warehouse to prepare for the finalist ...

Humanoid robots will be helpful to astronauts on our journey to Mars, so NASA has awarded prototypes to two universities for advanced research and development work. NASA is interested in humanoid ...

Nasa has released a video showing its R5 Valkyrie humanoid robot dancing to showcase how the robot's dexterity can come close to matching that of a human NASA Are you excited about the prospect of ...

MIT and Northeastern teams will compete to make NASA's 6-foot-tall humanoid robot, also called R5, more useful for space exploration. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides ...

So far the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has spawned the such terrifying beasts such as the Terminator-esque Atlas. So it's comforting to see that Nasa's entry looks like it would probably fight on ...