If You Must Cry Over a Space Robot, Make It This One. NASA’s InSight mission was the little lander that kinda, mostly could. By Marina Koren.

The M4 robot weighs around 13 pounds, is about 27.5 inches wide and 13.8 inches tall. It also has four legs, each comprising two joints, and ducted fans fixed at the leg ends.

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with scientists Feifei Qian and Ryan Ewing of the LASSIE Project. It is training a robot dog to navigate different types of terrain in preparation for future space missions.

The robot will be utilized in three sectors: commerce, space and personal home use -- in that specific order, from structured to unstructured environments. "Structured means you can control the ...

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.

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.

Saturn's tiny frozen "Death Star" moon could actually be a "stealth" ocean world, scientists say 01:49. Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out.

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.

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 climb up ground that’s not-so-flat or not-so-compact.