From asteroid mining to on-orbit servicing, autonomous robots are key to the future of space exploration and defense.

"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future ...

While Robonaut is already in action, NASA is working to fill out its robotic roster. The in-house Valkyrie system is one path toward the next generation of humanoid space travelling robots, but ...

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 ...

Future robots may cooperatively explore alien worlds.Scientiststoday can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixarfilm ?WALL?E.? But some researchers are working on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers are using machine learning to train a robot to recognize a jumbled pile of items, locate the one item it needs and retrieve it in the most ...

Home Space Features This team of legged robots could be the future of Mars exploration By Georgina Torbet Published September 9, 2023 ETH Zurich ...

But what does that mean for future generations of budding astronauts – and surely there are certain functions that humans can do in space but which robots, however advanced, never could?

Smart robots building space stations in orbit may be in the future, but there are plenty of other examples of how smart robots and automation are becoming critical to the future of spaceflight.

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the fusion of Virtual Reality (VR) and Robotics is crafting a new frontier that ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has three new flying robots, collectively known as the Astrobees. Built by NASA, these three bots—named Honey, Queen, and Bumble—will work alongside ...