In 1997, the Sojourner robot — weighing in at 23 pounds and rolling at a top speed of 0.02 miles per hour — was the first of five different explorer robots sent to Mars.

The Robonaut 2 (R2) made the trip to the International Space Station back in 2011. Initially, the 300-pound robot had a torso, arms, and a head equipped with five cameras. Then in 2014, NASA sent ...

Explorer is one of the robot systems that so far managed to impress DARPA’s higher-ups. It has been developed by the Carnegie Mellon University and the Oregon State University with funding from ...

The robot went to the depth of 1,325 feet, or the length of its cord, but still did not seem to hit the bottom. In 2015, Starnawski himself passed through the slot and went to the depth of 869 ...

Tesla's Optimus robots will be used to explore the surface of Mars, Elon Musk confirmed today. The humanoid robots, which were initially pitched as household assistants in October last year, will ...

It's a sunny afternoon at the Stanford University rec center, and I'm about to go swimming with a robot. I've rented my wetsuit from a friendly guy at Sports Basement ("You can take it surfing ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer is back in action after a power issue forced the spacecraft to shut down hours after landing on the moon 10 days ago, the country’s ...

The robotic explorer GLIMPSE, created at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, has made it into the final round of a competition for prospecting resources in space. The long-term goal is for the ...

Tesla's Optimus robots will be used to explore the surface of Mars, Elon Musk confirmed today. The humanoid robots, which were initially pitched as household assistants in October last year, will ...