Click above to listen to part 5 of Meet Your Robot Barista, featuring Kimberly Hambuchen, aeronautics engineer and the principal technologist of robotics at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, explaining what NASA’s Valkyrie robot can do, and what it can’t.

Meet Your Robot Barista:
Part 1: The Coffee Server
Part 2: Martin Ford / Robots Rising
Part 3: Peter Norvig / A.I. Automation
Part 4: Owen Churchill / A.I. in China
Part 5: Kimberly Hambuchen / NASA’s Valkyrie

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