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Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions. Imagine a ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) space robotics team received the Best Paper Award in Orbital Robotics at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo) in ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) --The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

"We have stuck to a plan that does not make sense." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin ...

Clayton Swope testified before the House Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics regarding China's rise in space competition and implications for U.S. leadership and ...