Recent advancements in AI are transforming how robots operate aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A new study published on the arXiv preprint server explores how AI is improving robot ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have developed a biomimetic soft robot inspired by earthworms, utilizing a peristaltic movement for locomotion. The robot's design incorporates ...

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational ...

Cosmonaut Nikolai Chub working on the Russian segment of the International Space Station during an April 2024 spacewalk. Credit: NASA MILAN – Spacewalks, often a highlight of space missions, are ...

A PickNik space robot concept called Tridex. PickNik Robotics, a leader in robotics software and engineering services, today announced that it has won a SpaceWERX contract to work on robotics for the ...

Future space activities will increasingly depend on autonomous systems that can construct, maintain, and expand infrastructure long before, and long after, ...

The gripper switches between three modes, which are suited to tasks that require maintaining a secure hold on an object or applying high pressure, precise finger positioning or in-hand manipulation, ...

Silicon Valley institution Y Combinator has released a new list of 20 types of startups it wants to join its accelerator program — calling for applications in sectors like artificial ...

In a windy patch of desert outside Barstow, Calif., a 700-pound planetary rover named Helelani is churning its thick tires through a flour-like dust. Seven teams from around the world are taking turns ...