Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently tested prototypes of miniature, self-propelled robots designed to ...

SWIM is funded by NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program under the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA and Caltech teams are already developing the next generation of robotic ...

NEW DELHI: Nasa is preparing to send astronauts back to the moon and has announced its plan to construct first lunar railway system, known as FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a Track). Engineers at ...

The action Pettit captured shows Dextre working with the materials exposure payload, or MISSE. The MISSE series of ...

NASA is developing a nature-inspired project called Marsbee to aid in exploring the Red Planet. Experts are working on a robotic swarm of bees tasked with collecting data and transmitting it to ...

17,000 students from 30 different countries competed at the 20th FIRST Robotics Championship. The students are building fully functioning robots and attracting NASA's attention in the process.

The chemical sensor contains a microchip with the capacity to determine the composition of a sample in a few minutes. "This "lab on a robot" could lay the groundwork for the next generation of NASA ...

NASA Robotic Construction Competition : Designing Efficient Lunar Excavation and Deposition Hybrid Systems by Ryan DeAngelis, Aditya Arjun Anibha, Sarah Ruschke, James Gilliam, Carter Doby, Keertana ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA just unveiled a new modular robotic vehicle (MRV). The MRV is battery powered and has four independent wheel modules that can rotate 180 degrees, allowing the ...

Maxar Technologies has signed a contract with NASA to deliver a robotic arm called Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering and Probing of Lunar Regolith (SAMPLR). The arm – which will be used ...

One of the contractors that worked with NASA on the project was California-based Maxar Technologies, which was to provide the spacecraft and robotic arm under contracts worth $316 million.