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Valkyrie was a foundational humanoid robotics project for Apptronik’s team. Apptronik’s co-founders were selected to work on NASA’s Valkyrie robot for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, contributing to actuators and controls for one of the most ambitious humanoid platforms of its time. Valkyrie featured 44 degrees of freedom, with series elastic actuators in many of its joints, and incorporated Apptronik’s novel linear actuator technology. The lessons learned from Valkyrie helped shape Apptronik’s approach to actuation, controls, safety, and full-body humanoid design - technical threads that continue through the company’s later platforms and ultimately into Apollo.
