Scientists have created a tiny robot inspired by the humble inchworm, and it could one day help inspect damaged sewer pipes, ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...

The slowest part of a Mars mission is often not the driving, it is the waiting. A rover can only do so much when every move must be planned from Earth, then checked, then sent back across a gap that ...

Could humans ever set foot on Titan, or will AI-powered humanoid robots make the voyage instead?

Can autonomous robots help cut space exploration times? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Space Technologies hopes to address as a team of scientists from Switzerland and the ...

You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio signals from Earth take up to 22 minutes to arrive. This simple fact has stalled space construction for decades. The dream of building in space ...

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An Image from NASA showing the Tharsis face of Mars, a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere of the planet. You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio ...