An Astrobee, a tiny robot cube, is zipping around the International Space Station helping out the astronauts on board.

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

How do robots feel in space? This is both a practical and possibly an existential question. Still, today, we'll focus on the practical side by looking at a review paper from Hadi Jahanshahi and Zheng ...

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 ...

Colossal super-rockets being produced by billionaires Elon Musk snd Jeff Bezos are set to carry astronauts across the heavens in a new "Golden Age of Space Exploration" (Photo by NASA via Getty Images ...

It’s been a big week for humanoid robots with a first-ever humanoid to directly connect to a low-Earth orbit satellite from one firm and plans announced to launch a robot into space by another. It ...

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 ...

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NASA's Swift Observatory will burn up this week. And while the agency has a lot of experience losing beloved hardware, it never gets easier.

An emerging class of startups is pushing the boundaries of what machines can do in the physical world — retrofitting bulldozers to dig on their own, launching drones that beat police cars to 911 calls ...

The Special Collection aims to showcase advances in intelligent space robotics, emphasizing the integration of robotic design, perception, learning, and mission strategies to enable autonomous and ...

New frontiers are emerging on the battlefield, with countries increasingly investing in laser weapons, space warfare and even humanoid robots. Once a staple of science fiction, laser weapons are now a ...