Humanoid · Research platform
Valkyrie R5
NASA’s R5, also known as Valkyrie, is an entirely electric humanoid developed for work in degraded or damaged human-engineered environments.
Specifications
Provenance required- Height
- 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
- Weight
- 300 lb (136 kg)
- Degrees of freedom
- 44
- Battery energy
- 1.8 kWh
- Battery runtime
- About 1 hour
- Computers
- 2 × Intel Core i7
- Locomotion
- Bipedal
- Hand
- 3 fingers and a thumb
Applications
- Humanoid robotics research
- Degraded-environment research
- Space robotics research
Primary sources
- R5 — NASA’s Valkyrie robotNASA · accessed 19 September 2026