When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

Remote-controlled robots could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK. The company used two remotely operated robotic arms to assemble a section of the support ...

Squads of American explorers are counting down to rocketing to the Moon, armed with leading-edge technologies that set the stage for a new branch of civilization to bring life to its ancient craters.

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Sending 1 kilogram to Mars will set you back roughly $2.4 million, judging by the cost of the Perseverance mission. If you want to pack up supplies and gear for every conceivable contingency, you’re ...

HOUSTON/AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Standing at 6 feet 2 inches (188 centimeters) tall and weighing 300 pounds (136 kilograms), NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie is an imposing figure. Valkyrie, ...

In April 2021, Bumble, one of the free-flying Astrobee robots aboard the International Space Station, was put to the test to investigate a simulated anomaly. In the simulation, the station’s life ...

ISS Commander Suni Williams helps test out an Astrobee free-flying robot, outfitted with mechanical octopus tentacles to capture dead satellites and hyper-speed space debris, as she orbits the planet ...

Robots and humans assembled their brains and artificial intelligence (AI) for Moon exploration at the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. A team proved that when it comes to surveying uncharted ...

When a Mars rover beams back a selfie, the mission's Earth-bound engineers and scientists feel like they're getting a FaceTime from a friend they haven't seen in ages. We know Mars rovers are robots, ...

Denmark astronaut Andreas Mogensen loves space robots. The International Space Station (ISS) astronaut did a rover experiment from space in 2015, and can't wait to keep going. Mogensen will next ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...