It's already happening. A swarm of small swimming robots may search for life on other planets NASA engineers have just completed initial tests of a new exploration mission concept using a group of ...
A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of the moon, NASA has announced. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray ...
One of the globe’s top designers of space robots says a new “Golden Age of Space Exploration ... Both Blue Origin and SpaceX have been commissioned by NASA to deploy landers to shuttle ...
NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it ...
There’s a new high-tech vacuum about ... The instrument is designed by Honeybee Robotics, part of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space venture. NASA described LPV as “essentially ...
Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like they can crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 120 kilograms, NASA’s Valkyrie robot is an intimidating figure.
It's still an immense technological challenge, but one that plays to NASA's robotics expertise. NASA also says that this approach will influence the design of the very spacecraft it aims to serve.