But this particular robot has listened to the ground shake on Mars. It has felt marsquakes beneath its little mechanical feet. NASA and European space agencies designed the spacecraft to study ...

But snow? In space? Snow can feel like all sorts of material, Caporale said, which will help Spirit learn about walking on all sorts of surfaces. RELATED: A tiny robot on the space station will ...

In 2017, Ramezani's "Bat Bot," a robot created to study flight specializations, was the cover story for Science Magazine. He believes his newest design is the future of space exploration ...

It is training a robot dog to navigate different types of terrain in preparation for future space missions. A dog named Spirit has been exploring the rocks and snow on Mount Hood in Oregon and ...

The state space structure describes how a robot is supposed to move from one step to the next within that state space. There are different machine learning methods that can train it to do this.

As robots become more common in space, especially as they interact with their environment and other robots more frequently, tactile sensors will become an increasingly important part of their ...

The robot is being designed to assist with tasks in space, the commercial sector -- and, most interestingly, the home. Apollo will be equipped to carry out a range of tasks in different ...

At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond.