I’m standing earlier than one of the crucial superior robots on this planet and am awestruck and disoriented by its humanoid kind. Half Transformer, half Star Wars stormtrooper and with fingers that appear like they’ll crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 120 kilograms, NASA’s Valkyrie robotic is an intimidating determine.
However it’s the face that the majority transfixes me. The place the eyes, mouth and nostril needs to be is a cavity full of an array of whirring and flashing sensors, together with superior lidar detectors…