Robonaut 2 — or R2 for short — is now tweeting at www.twitter.com/AstroRobonaut. With the help of its team, the robot sent its first tweet on July 26. R2 will be ...

The humanoid robot set to join the STS-133 mission on the space shuttle Discovery will be enclosed in specially constructed packaging called Sleepr (Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect ...

NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General ...

Robonaut 2, nicknamed R2, shakes hands with NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. This event made history with the first ...

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NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station is something special. That's why the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

Hundreds of people from at least 15 different countries have journeyed to the International Space Station (ISS), but the habitable artificial satellite has only hosted human astronauts, until the ...

If you ever visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center and get to meet the Robonaut 2 prototype, be sure to shake the robot’s hand, since it can do that, and congratulate it. The actual Robonaut 2 (R2), the ...

NASA’s Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot currently stationed on the International Space Station, is undergoing “training” with the hopes that it may eventually be able to perform medical and surgical tasks ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs. For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the ...

Robonaut 1A is a remotely operated, experimental astronaut assistant developed by NASA and DARPA to handle tools and other small objects. In 2011 NASA sent Robonaut 2 to the International Space ...