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 ...

NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident response. NASA's 12 ...

Will robots that help astronauts in space be as friendly and likeable as the fictional “R2-D2” android portrayed in the original “Stars Wars” motion picture? NASA scientists say robots will behave ...

NASA has teamed up with Apptronik to accelerate the commercialization of the Apollo humanoid robot system. The company founded in 2016 has created several robotics platforms that include exoskeletons ...

It almost feels like outer space is designed to kill you, from massive amounts of radiation to extreme temperatures. To offload mundane and dangerous tasks from astronauts, NASA has invested in Austin ...

NASA has teamed up with a small robotics firm in Texas to continue the space agency's decades of work developing humanoid robots. Soon, such robots may be sent to orbit, or even other planets, to help ...

NASA today began looking for small robotic landers it can operate on the Moon. NASA said the idea behind its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program is to “obtain data and gather knowledge ...