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 ...

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Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

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 ...

WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - A NASA-supported grant has been given to Thomas College that goes right into robotics programs for Central Maine schools. Through the Maine Space Grant Consortium with the ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

Jonny Kim of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Dec. 9). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its first image from space. It’s headed to a rendezvous with the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, one of Earth’s “quasi-moons,” where it will collect samples in ...

Stanford researchers are bringing a sci-fi vision to life aboard the International Space Station (ISS). They have become the first to demonstrate that AI-based control can guide a robot autonomously ...

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.