NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

Apollo, a human sized robot built by Texas based startup Apptronik, is quietly moving from pilot shifts on factory floors toward a role in deep space exploration. The same design that lets it lift ...

During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.

"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future permanent lunar research station." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

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 ...

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Team members from the University of North Florida watch their robotic miner dig in the mining arena. (NASA) AUSTIN (KXAN) — As humans plan a return to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program, ...

Robots are becoming smarter and more common, but their ability to handle objects with human-like precision remains limited.