"This is the first time AI has been used to help control a robot on the ISS." ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ...

A toaster-sized robot just took a major step toward autonomous space navigation. Stanford researchers ...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain with the first Astrobee robot in the Kibo module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA is seeking proposals from potential commercial providers for ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of human engineering, and not even its projected demise is enough to keep companies interested in space experiments away from it. With six years or so ...

It's mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said Wednesday, admitting he could not replace astronauts on space walks. "He won't ...

Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...

On her first visit to orbit, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has just introduced herself to three robots stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). “We hit the ground running (or floating??) ...

Robots have a long sci-fi history with humans in space. Now the International Space Station is getting a robotic assistant of its own: CIMON. Short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, it arrived on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a "monstrous" two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein's monster from its ...

HOUSTON - Spacewalking astronauts added hands to a robot outside the international space station early Friday as experts on the ground prepared to beam up a software patch they hoped would fix a ...