NASA has also been working on autonomous rovers that can explore and excavate on the Moon with minimal human direction. And ...

By Akash Sriram March 30 (Reuters) - Space-tech firm Voyager Technologies has secured a mission management contract with robotics startup Icarus Robotics to demonstrate a free-flying robotic system on ...

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

The results, published in Frontiers in Space Technologies, showed that semi-autonomous robots can quickly investigate several ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions. Subscribe to ...

The struggle to be first in humanoid robots is the space race of our time, says Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas, who also says that major upgrades are coming to Apptronik’s appropriately-named Apollo ...

Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025. The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture ...

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Diane Tedeschi Robonaut 1A was a test unit in the robotics lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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