NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

Explore the latest breakthroughs in technology, including NASA's innovative Micro Nova Hopper for lunar mobility, Brazil's ...

This view of NASA's RoboSimian robot shows its size as compared to human beings. The robot was built by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. RoboSimian, built by engineers ...

Conditions on the Moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Washington, to prepare for ...

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 ...

Retired NASA astronaut explains how robots could shape space exploration Retired NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore discusses the possibility of robots being a part of space exploration efforts and more on ...

While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in Germany. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Footage: ESA/DLR SpaceX can ...

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Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that ...

Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read ...