This view of NASA's RoboSimian robot shows its size as compared to human beings. The robot was built by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. RoboSimian, built by engineers ...

Penn’s Sung Robotics Lab is working with NASA to lead an initiative investigating how robots can explore and navigate extraterrestrial environments. The project, titled “Temporarily, Robots Unite to ...

Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was not what it is today. Once, it bubbled and rippled with frothy waves, just like the Earth. But when swirling masses of gas and dust were accumulated by ...

In a quiet corner of the International Space Station, far from the bustle of experiments and Earth communications, three small robotic cubes drift through the air like hummingbirds in slow motion.

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...