For NASA, this was a week of launches and lack of launches. The space shuttle Discovery successfully blasted off yesterday on its final mission, but NASA's climate-watching Glory satellite, which was ...

Two four-legged robots recently explored a practice Mars yard, with a little help from an astronaut in space and several robot buddies. The robot team, along with the "Neal AI" chatbot and NASA ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has piloted a team of robots from the International Space Station (ISS) in a simulated Martian environment at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. This was ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Reuters) - A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts will launch from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial ...

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Diane Tedeschi Robonaut 1A was a test unit in the robotics lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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