NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves with minimal human presence. Its latest robotics initiative is designed not ...

In a quiet corner of the International Space Station, far from the bustle of experiments and Earth communications, three small robotic cubes drift through the air like hummingbirds in slow motion.

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows ...

Last month, Reliable Robotics and NASA announced that they had completed a series of flight tests to validate the use of existing primary surveillance radar (PSR) data from the FAA for improving ...

After 33 grueling regional tournaments, the top high school robotics teams from the United States and abroad will battle for pride and glory, and NASA will be there to broadcast the excitement. On ...

Bradley Gartner is a senior at Miami University majoring in Robotics Engineering. He completed an internship this summer with NASA at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Rocket Lab has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Motiv Space Systems, adding space robotics and ...

Does a levitating robot train on the moon sound far-fetched? NASA doesn’t seem to think so, as the agency has just greenlit further funding for a study looking into the concept. The project, called ...

This new NASA snake robot is designed to find other life in the universe. EELS is tested in the sandy terrain of JPL's Mars Yard in April. Engineers repeatedly test the snake robot across a variety of ...