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

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 ...

Motiv Space Systems and PickNik Robotics Collaborate on Software for NASA’s Fly Foundational Robotics (FFR) Mission ...

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 ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons' hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA's Jet ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

Penn’s Sung Robotics Lab is working with NASA to lead an initiative investigating how robots can explore and navigate extraterrestrial environments. The project, titled “Temporarily, Robots Unite to ...

Team members from the University of North Florida watch their robotic miner dig in the mining arena. (NASA) AUSTIN (KXAN) — As humans plan a return to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program, ...