NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...

A UTEP professor is part of the team as NASA plans to land two astronauts on the south pole of the moon for the first time in ...

NASA has announced its 2025 class of astronaut candidates, including a Houston native, from over 8,000 applicants. The ten ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Earthbound technologies and computer programming that make most popular video games possible are driving development of the remote-controlled robots now in use by NASA in the unmanned exploration of ...