Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space. Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?

Each robot would be tiny — about the size ... Also, anything that is sent into space, especially an explorer that will be out of Earth's orbit and impossible to repair, needs to be made using ...

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have been getting some assistance from an "intelligent" robot. Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze — the crew of the current Shenzhou 19 ...

China is advancing lunar exploration with the Chang'e-7 mission, deploying a flying robot to the moon's south pole to hunt ...

But aside from an innate desire to explore, or a sense of prestige ... Nasa's Valkyrie robot was built by the Johnson Space Center to compete in a 2013 robotics challenge trial.

PUFFER — which stands for Pop-Up Flat-Folding Explorer Robot — is able to sense objects ... for any future exploration missions. For more space-goodness, check out that time we toured the ...

The world is entering a new era of space exploration where both robots and humans will explore the Moon and Mars. Driven by NASA and SpaceX, with sign ...