When Japan’s SLIM spacecraft touched down on the Moon, the landing was historic — but not exactly graceful. The spacecraft ...

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on ...

Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), a lunar robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could have been plucked ...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

Twenty-two students gathered at Northeastern State University this week for the third Robotics for Young Scientists and Engineers summer academy. The hands-on summer Science, Technology, Engineering, ...

Orbit Robotics built Helios, a four-armed robot designed for zero gravity that grips and braces inside spacecraft while ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Most robots are built to look like something. Engineers designing machines to navigate the real world have, for decades, reached for the same reference points: the human skeleton, the dog's ...