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.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a flexible robot, inspired by origami, that can flatten itself to crawl into small spaces, scale steep inclines and withstand long … ...

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 ...

Before humans land on Mars and explore its subsurface, which could contain evidence of life, scientists want to send ReachBot – a robot designed to crawl and climb through extraterrestrial caves.

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 ...

The UX-1Neo was developed as part of UNEXUP, a European project that is aiming to commercialize a new class of mine explorer robots for raw materials exploration and mine mapping.

A company called Flash Robotics designed a robot named Emys that’s supposed to teach kids another language. While plenty of apps, TV shows, and games attempt to ingrain language into kids ...

Boston Dynamics recently started selling their Spot Explorer robot dog for $75,000 and now we get to have a look at one in an unboxing video from Unbox Therapy.. We first saw some versions of the ...

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 ...