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is the newest bipedal robot out of our lab we added a few motors for degrees of freedoms so that enables us to make stand in place sit down crouch squat we've had to upgrade pretty much everything from Atreus to get the size down we've had to build a lithium-ion battery pack we looked around to having people build it for us and the two markets for that really exist in electric vehicles and home backup power and those are both just way too large for our applications we did a lot of our own custom designs for Cassie because we didn't have access to off-the-shelf components that performed as well as we could make perform ourselves we're doing something that no one really knows how to do yet and by doing it we're learning what's correct we're learning what the right answers are there are a lot of robots out there that will take one step and put one step in from the other but they take a huge amount of energy to do it or any small disturbance so these robots that are just sort of demonstrations will follow through much and there's only a few robots that are even close to Cassie as far as being able to dynamically walk around I mean only two legs is a much more complicated problem that we don't fully understand yet as compared to four legs you know a biped and you can think of a two-legged table is not going to be very stable so there's a lot you have to do there you really have to move your feet around if you think about any sort of disaster scenario where they say do we have any robots that can go into this space the answer is always not yet imagine you've got a fire building and the fire chief isn't really sure if somebody's still in the building and they have to make a difficult decision about whether they're going to send one of their firefighters in this is dangerous if you have a robot that has the same capabilities as a person you wouldn't think twice about sending that robot so that's my guiding star is putting this out into the world and making something actually useful meet Valkyrie Valkyrie 162 125 kilograms superhero robot we really wanted to design the appearance of this robot to be one that was just when you saw I'm gonna wow that's that's awesome so it's a 44 degree freedom robot very capable very strong completely self-contained we have a two kilowatt hour battery lots of onboard computing got a seven degree of freedom arm and six degree freedom hand three degree freedom pelvis and we have a six 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 so we wanted to be able to replace components major components on the robot in under 15 minutes the robot is designed also such that the arms are actually identical so with just reconfiguring a piece on the arm a right arm 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 roof slide the battery out and slide a new battery in so as you can see in the head we've got cameras both lidar point cloud based camera systems in the chest we've got cameras we have sonar in that in the chest in the stomach optimal area we have cameras on our fourarms for when we're grasping so we can get a good view from there moving on down we have cameras and the knees we've got cameras in the in the feet pretty much when our when our operators are running them are running the robot any data any piece of data any image that they would want to see from what the robots seeing is available to our users NASA saw considerable overlap and what the DRC was trying to accomplish and NASA's 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 preparing the way for the human explorers when the humans arrive the robots and the humans will work together in conjunction building halves laying foundation and just working together in that in that tight relationship so technologies such as Valkyrie are going to really lead into the the type of robotic systems that will one day be the precursor missions before the astronauts go to Mars really strong a powerful robot superhero robot blowing NASA meatball what more would you want Oh takes place in Honda's headquarters in Tokyo hello Waseem Oh welcome mark it's nice to meet you I'm asking oh nice to meet you too I feel like to introduce myself with sign language my name is a symbol well done pleased to see you pleased to see you too can I shake your hand nice to meet you thank you please come this way thank you let me follow you ASIMO has been programmed to walk slowly when guiding people let's play soccer I'd love to play soccer with you by the way you also played soccer with Barack Obama didn't you shall I place the ball for you here you go now I'll go over here and wait for your kick okay here I go oh nice kick-ass emo haha ASIMO let's do this again this time I'm gonna put the ball in a different place okay I see mo anytime you're ready ASIMO determines the ideal position from where to kick the ball here I go wow you knew exactly where the ball was next i won you run Wow please show me how you do that too it runs fast and it keeps its balance next a sumo demonstrates its ability to jump on one foot its hip knee and ankle joints work together to perfectly absorb the impact of every jump ASIMO can also remain perfectly balanced on one leg you you I'll be no mistake but as you are how are the whole yoga Sam so in total I had such a terrible they CREP for this one since I saw you but a single Hardaway I'm a photo all leadership up and oh honey oh she has title or subject none of the usual within a week he or she makes it also has totally a VCO tosai stuff that I'll go down to the to be more 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