NASA has teamed up with a small robotics firm in Texas to continue the space agency's decades of work developing humanoid robots. Soon, such robots may be sent to orbit, or even other planets, to help ...

NASA has a long track record of engineering feats that have helped humans explore the depths of space. One of the agency's next projects will help humans travel to new celestial bodies – but it may ...

NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie undergoes rigorous testing at Houston's Johnson Space Center, taking space exploration to another level. Valkyrie, at 188 cm tall and 136 kg, is designed to maneuver ...

NASA's 2026 Lunabotics challenge seeks a team or person to create a space robot able to move and build on the Moon's surface as the space agency gears up for future life in orbit part of its Artemis ...

Apr. 28—FAIRMONT — Officials with NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Program want to make sure the next generation is prepared to enter the field in the coming years. On Thursday morning, ...

A close-up view of the bucket drums on Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) in the regolith bin inside Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, ...

Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will ...

NASA is advancing the development of autonomous swimming robots designed to explore the vast, hidden oceans beneath the icy crusts of moons like Europa and Enceladus. These futuristic robots, part of ...