NASA

NASA Robonaut

NASA Robonaut is a humanoid upper torso research robot built by NASA in Washington, D.C., USA. It has a price that has never been disclosed and was never commercially sold. Key specs: 1,016 mm height (torso), 54 degrees of freedom, and 9 kg payload per arm. It is a research-only platform for space station maintenance and teleoperation.

NASA Valkyrie (R5)

The Valkyrie (R5) is a 44-DOF full-size humanoid research robot developed by NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It stands 1.88 m tall, weighs 127 kg, and operates for about 1 hour on battery. The robot was built for the DARPA Robotics Challenge and planetary habitat maintenance, with a reported build cost of approximately $2 million but no commercial price. As a research platform, Valkyrie is not sold; NASA loans units to academic partners for human-robot collaboration research.