"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future ...

This vision of the future of labor is a test station at the end of an assembly line for building humanoid robots designed to ...

In April 2021, Bumble, one of the free-flying Astrobee robots aboard the International Space Station, was put to the test to investigate a simulated anomaly. In the simulation, the station’s ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers are using machine learning to train a robot to recognize a jumbled pile of items, locate the one item it needs and retrieve it in the most ...

Future robots may cooperatively explore alien worlds.Scientiststoday can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixarfilm ?WALL?E.? But some researchers are working on ...

But what does that mean for future generations of budding astronauts – and surely there are certain functions that humans can do in space but which robots, however advanced, never could?

From asteroid mining to on-orbit servicing, autonomous robots are key to the future of space exploration and defense.

Instead of building robots here on Earth and then sending them to distant planets, some say we should build the robots on those planets with found materials ...

Smart robots building space stations in orbit may be in the future, but there are plenty of other examples of how smart robots and automation are becoming critical to the future of spaceflight.