Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. The national park ...

Two four-legged robots recently explored a practice Mars yard, with a little help from an astronaut in space and several robot buddies. The robot team, along with the "Neal AI" chatbot and NASA ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a ...

A squad of robots will explore off-planet caves to help set up homes for humans, according to new research. The robo-teams would work together to rappel down into lava holes to map out potential ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

A view from the Mars Exploration Rover from when it set a one-day distance record for Martian driving, in 2005 (via Panoramic Camera, NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 3D images make up just a small part of the ...

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