NASA’s next generation of Moon crews will not step onto the regolith alone. Alongside the astronauts, compact robotic “droids ...

NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves ...

Now, however, Stanford researchers have used artificial intelligence to steer a free-flying robot aboard the International ...

NASA’s Expedition 74 conducts biomedical, robotics and materials experiments aboard the ISS, including stem cell research, cardiovascular studies and robotic operations to support space science and ...

NASA has some really wild plans, and I mean that in the best way possible. Despite facing some massive delays for its upcoming Artemis missions, which will see humanity return to the Moon for the ...

NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ...

It sounds like sci-fi, but NASA hopes to build a levitating railway on the Moon. It first proposed the idea in 2021, and it could be up and running by the 2030s. Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT) ...

Digging on the Moon is a hard job for a robot. It has to be able to collect and move lunar soil, or regolith, but anything launching to the Moon needs to be lightweight. The problem is excavators rely ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected eight advanced robotics projects that will enable the agency’s future missions while supporting the Obama administration’s National Robotics Initiative. The projects, ...