NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

Apollo, a human sized robot built by Texas based startup Apptronik, is quietly moving from pilot shifts on factory floors toward a role in deep space exploration. The same design that lets it lift ...

NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves with minimal human presence. Its latest robotics initiative is designed not ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

Bad news if you want to move to the moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as always) is thinking ahead, and has just shown off a self-assembling robotic structure that ...

NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie undergoes rigorous testing at Houston's Johnson Space Center, taking space exploration to another level. Valkyrie, at 188 cm tall and 136 kg, is designed to maneuver ...

Led by NASA JPL, Team CoSTAR will participate in the SubT final this week to demonstrate multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme environments. Eight teams featuring dozens of robots from ...

Astronauts could take advantage of local resources while living and working on the Moon and Mars. Robot helpers could help find and extract the resources – water, oxygen, and more – before humans even ...

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NASA technology developed originally for use in space is employed in many everyday situations on Earth, including in your mattress foam.