"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future permanent lunar research station." ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is in the midst of testing a new robot that it hopes to deploy into outer space to help answer the age-old question of whether life exists away from Earth.

Oregon State University researchers tested a quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, showing it can scout terrain and ...

In a step away from the traditional Wall-E-shaped robots that have been sent to other planets, NASA is planning to send robots resembling snakes to explore the moons of Saturn.

Retired NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore discusses the possibility of robots being a part of space exploration efforts and more ...

While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the Robotics and Automation Design Lab (RAD Lab), designed a ...

NASA's Shapeshifter robot looks like a science fiction project come to life and could explore Saturn's moon, a distant world with liquid on its surface.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is helping make its fellow NASA space traveler, the InSight Lander, useful with its photos of the 'dead' robot.

The robot is still around today, although not much has happened with it in recent years, except for tweaks and improvements performed as a means to get the machine ready for whatever new task NASA ...

The space agency and its partner Apptronik have taken on the ambitious challenge of building a general-purpose, humanoid robot.

If you enjoy solving problems and suddenly have a little more time on your hands because everything is canceled, consider helping NASA design a robot that will operate on the moon’s surface.

NASA’s humanoid robot looks like the offspring of a three-way between Daft Punk, C-3PO and a football player, and it goes by the name of R2 – Robonaut 2 if you’d like to get formal. The ...