NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any ...

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

FUTURE space colonists could live inside giant 3D-printed homes on the Moon and Mars – and we might already know what they’ll ...

Penn’s Sung Robotics Lab is working with NASA to lead an initiative investigating how robots can explore and navigate extraterrestrial environments. The project, titled “Temporarily, Robots Unite to ...

NASA is developing a bunch of robots it wants to send to space. Some are humanoid like the RoboSimian and Robonaut 2. But other bots like the Ice Worm, Astrobee, and LEMUR are more abstract. Of course ...

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