Abstract: Exterior International Space Station (ISS) visual inspection currently requires astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA), a safety risk. Free-flying space robots can perform visual inspection ...

Earth has a bit of a space junk problem in low orbit. Currently, there are around 9,500 active satellites floating up in space with myriad purposes, but there are countless other defunct bits of junk ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Outer Worlds was widely seen as a decent stab at mapping Obsidian's first-person RPG style onto a new retro-future sci-fi setting, but what really ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

24 years. That’s how long NASA’s Canadarm2 has been operating on the International Space Station (ISS) without a single mission-critical failure. In that time, it’s performed hundreds of delicate ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) -- Hurricane Erin is moving away from the NC coast and the Outer Banks. The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported Friday evening that Erin had weakened to a Post-Tropical ...

Robomart aims to shakeup of autonomous delivery with a vehicle that can make multiple deliveries in a single run. Robomart aims to shakeup of autonomous delivery with a vehicle that can make multiple ...

Could a robot unload your groceries and put them away? A new video makes that future seem not so far away. The latest video from Boston Dynamics shows a humanoid robot moving objects from one ...

ELLABELL, Ga.—At Hyundai Motor Group’s ultramodern new auto plant, robots perform a stunning array of tasks. They move materials, attach doors and do almost all of the welding. Dog-like robots, their ...

Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these insects’ passive, ultra-fast movements, the robot gains speed, control, ...

Abstract: Current work at NASA's Johnson Space Center is focusing on the identification and design of novel robotic archetypes to fill roles complimentary to current space robots during in-space ...