NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

This view of NASA's RoboSimian robot shows its size as compared to human beings. The robot was built by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. RoboSimian, built by engineers ...

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Team members from the University of North Florida watch their robotic miner dig in the mining arena. (NASA) AUSTIN (KXAN) — As humans plan a return to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program, ...

Despite rapid robotic automation advancements, most systems struggle to adapt their pre-trained movements to dynamic ...