Robots will be important on future Mars missions, but only if users can easily understand their capabilities and limitations, said Nick Conlon, one of Ahmed’s PhD students in the Ann and H.J. Smead ...

"So integrating our robot brain, NeBula, on Spot has been pushing the boundaries of what was possible in exploring unknown Mars-like environments." The robots typically cannot communicate from ...

From the Sojourner rover, which landed on Mars in 1997, to Perseverance, which touched down in February, the robots of the Red Planet share a defining feature: wheels.Rolling is far more stable ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

With each legged robot being much smaller than a current Mars rover, several of them would be needed to carry the same payload as a single wheeled robot. But that can be an advantage, ...

Autonomous, cooperative robots could one day tunnel underground Mars to create shelters for humans using novel 3D-printing techniques.

To this end, DLR wants to bring a swarm of autonomous, interconnected robots to Mars: They will operate on the ground, in the air and in caves, where they will collect images and other data.

Norwegian researchers are conducting a study to explore Mars by snake robot. Sept. 16, 2013— -- Snakes are crafty animals. They can be found slithering in the desert, swimming in the ocean ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is helping make its fellow NASA space traveler, the InSight Lander, useful with its photos of the 'dead' robot.

June 9 -- — The Mars exploration rovers should take seven months to get to the Red Planet. But for Steven W. Squyres, the journey has already lasted seven years. "This is going to be, when we ...

Here are five things to know about NASA's eighth successful robot landing on Mars: Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search Clear icon. 76 ...