On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more ...

Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on Space X's first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar predicts ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is of like mind. Earlier this year, Musk said that the company aims to launch a small, uncrewed fleet of its Starship megarockets toward Mars in late 2026, carrying ...

Rather than sending humans to far-flung planets, walking soft robots might go in our place, if a new breakthrough is anything to go by. As Dr Conor Walsh from the Harvard Biodesign Lab recently told ...

Virtual Incision’s Mira robot could be used on long-duration space missions after a successful test on the International Space Station (Virtual Incision) A team of Earth-based doctors have performed ...

Engineers Ireland is at the National Ploughing Championships to showcase the wide range of interesting tech budding engineers can work on. Engineering is a constantly growing sector in Ireland, with ...

Scientists have built a lab that replicates the conditions of space to test how robots could assemble large structures in orbit. Cranfield University is testing Multi-Arm Robot for In-Orbit Operations ...

The vision of colonizing Mars has been a dream for scientists, explorers, and visionaries for decades, and it seems closer ...

“Critically on the [International Space Station], humans are there to help and fix the robot when it inevitably falters,” ...

A new generation of African space explorers is ready for liftoff. The Pathways to Space program, a collaborative initiative ...