China is preparing to send a humanoid robot into orbit, positioning a private startup at the center of a new race to put ...
It must get lonely orbiting more than 200 miles above Earth in the International Space Station. Now, a robot is being developed to befriend and communicate with astronauts aboard the ISS. Cartoon ...
Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial ...
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 ...
Even astronauts do grunt work, including routine maintenance and organizing cargo. It’s a waste of precious space time and taxpayer money—it costs about $130,000 an hour to keep astronauts in orbit.
Spacewalking astronauts gave a hand to the International Space Station's big robot arm Tuesday. As the federal government geared back up 250 miles below, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott ...
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 ...