The International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre) was employed to install the Earth Surface ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Conditions on the Moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Washington, to prepare for ...

While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in ...

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 ...

NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that ...

Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks – all without an astronaut at the ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of human engineering, and not even its projected demise is enough to keep companies interested in space experiments away from it. With six years or so ...

Orbital Robotics, a space startup founded by Blue Origin veterans, is recruiting partners in its quest to build AI-powered ...

On Episode 193 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talks with NASA Chief Historian Dr. Roger Launius about about ...