Mobility is the ultimate enabler of science on Mars,” goes the oft-uttered mantra in planetary engineering circles. Now the phrase forms the very foundation of NASA’s newest initiative. A ...

LimX Dynamics is doing some fascinating work in the robotics arena. Four months after impressing us with its talented Oli ...

Elon Musk is selling investors a future of driverless cars, robot assistants and life on Mars. The problem is there’s only ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

Two four-legged robots recently explored a practice Mars yard, with a little help from an astronaut in space and several robot buddies. The robot team, along with the "Neal AI" chatbot and NASA ...

Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. The national park ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a ...

A view from the Mars Exploration Rover from when it set a one-day distance record for Martian driving, in 2005 (via Panoramic Camera, NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 3D images make up just a small part of the ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...