NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface. This robotic system will support lunar digging, making it possible ...

Digging on the Moon is a hard job for a robot. It has to be able to collect and move lunar soil, or regolith, but anything launching to the Moon needs to be lightweight. The problem is excavators rely ...

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 ...

The space industry is entering a new era—one where satellites and orbital infrastructure won’t simply be launched, used, and abandoned.

Subterranean caves might be the safest place for people to live on the moon, and the trio of SherpaTT, Coyote III, and LUVMI-X are meant to scope them out.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the ...

An Astrobee robotic free-flyer with tentacle-like arms was tested in a demonstration experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who is currently serving as ...

MOUNT HOOD, Ore. — At 7,000 feet, along the Magic Mile chair lift, there’s still plenty of snow for almost late June, but there’s a group interested in not just the freshly carved slopes but something ...

I am standing before one of the most advanced robots in the world and am awestruck and disoriented by its humanoid form. Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like ...

The robot's flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...