Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on ...

SpaceX’s lunar base concept relies on Starship’s massive cargo capacity and its ability to land entire structures directly on ...

A research team from the Space Robotics Laboratory at the University of Malaga, involved in the project, is testing and validating three robots on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, Spain. Protecting a ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Students at the University of Colorado Boulder are preparing to explore the moon from the comfort of an earthbound room, after designing a robot that can take them to the moon’s ...

For decades, our species' space exploration efforts have relied on individual robotic systems that can do a job with no need for food, water, and sleep. That worked wonders so far, but as our goals ...

The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a non-descript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a ...

A thumb-size $100 robot from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has arrived at the south pole of the moon. But the machine, called AstroAnt, isn’t going to explore the lunar surface. It’s ...

A squad of robots will explore off-planet caves to help set up homes for humans, according to new research. The robo-teams would work together to rappel down into lava holes to map out potential ...

It is with heavy hearts we report that an intrepid little robot that made it all the way to the Moon has met a horrible end. The fate was even more tragic for a robot, dubbed the Mobile Autonomous ...