Now, however, Stanford researchers have used artificial intelligence to steer a free-flying robot aboard the International ...

NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves with minimal human presence. Its latest robotics initiative is designed not ...

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

BBC Tech Now visited the National Space Industry Hub in Sydney, Australia, to look at how robots were being developed to support astronauts in space. Reporter Nick Kwek travelled to the hub to meet ...

American space agency NASA announced the Fly Foundational Robots mission in 2027, meant to test a robotic arm made by Motiv ...

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has been appointed by the China National Space Administration ...

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Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...