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 ...

NASA lunar mission technologies are enabling housing construction methods and robotic systems on Earth through technology transfer, 3D printing processes, and autonomous robotics.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed the first AI-planned drives on another world, marking a ...

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 ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

NASA is sending Google smartphones to the International Space Station where they will serve as the brains and eyes of flying, bowling-ball sized robots. These robots, called SPHERE (Synchronized ...

NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that have gone to Mars, Jupiter and Psyche (a metal asteroid). She's currently ...

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of human engineering, and not even its projected demise is enough to keep companies interested in space experiments away from it. With six years or so ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...

Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks – all without an astronaut at the ...