Advanced humanoid robots have been a mainstay of science fiction for decades, playing both the faithful sidekick and the murderous villain. The 2022 science fiction horror film M3GAN takes a middle ...

NASA has teamed up with a small robotics firm in Texas to continue the space agency's decades of work developing humanoid robots. Soon, such robots may be sent to orbit, or even other planets, to help ...

Will robots that help astronauts in space be as friendly and likeable as the fictional “R2-D2” android portrayed in the original “Stars Wars” motion picture? NASA scientists say robots will behave ...

NASA has teamed up with Apptronik to accelerate the commercialization of the Apollo humanoid robot system. The company founded in 2016 has created several robotics platforms that include exoskeletons ...

It almost feels like outer space is designed to kill you, from massive amounts of radiation to extreme temperatures. To offload mundane and dangerous tasks from astronauts, NASA has invested in Austin ...

NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident response. NASA's 12 ...

NASA's humanoid robot named Valkyrie is going to be tested in Western Australia before its sent off to assist astronauts in space. NASA has taken to its blog to announce that Valkyrie is heading to ...

NASA is pursuing several technologies and designs in the field of robotics, each with different purposes and challenges. Robots that drive over a planet’s surface, work on the inside of a space ...

NASA today began looking for small robotic landers it can operate on the Moon. NASA said the idea behind its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program is to “obtain data and gather knowledge ...

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