The International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre) was employed to install the Earth Surface ...
When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in ...
How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...
A team of Stanford researchers have test-flown an autonomous robot inside the International Space Station (ISS), demonstrating a technique for guiding robots in space when computational resources are ...
Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...
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.