Before there was R2, however, there was Robonaut 1A, R2’s older sibling. Unlike R2, Robonaut 1A has no legs, but with its ...

The pogo-stick-like bot’s nickname stands for Saltatorial Agile Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles, for its skill borrowed from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

And so the robot will have to solve the same problem.” That wouldn’t be a problem for most space-bound robots, like Mars rovers, which used wheels to travel around. However, the rovers can’t ...