From self-driving cars to robotic arms in factories, robotics is a fast-growing field that combines science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). For students passionate about innovation ...

Just let the robots explore and map the environment." The team has worked on exploration systems for more than three years. They've explored and mapped several underground mines, ...

Science fiction is coming to life in NASA's latest space-exploring robot dubbed the Shapeshifter, a "flying amphibious robot" that researchers hope can roll, fly, float and swim as it explores ...

Legged robots could join rovers and airborne spacecraft in the future, stepping into treacherous regions rovers cannot access and making exploration more efficient. Teamwork really could make the ...

In 1997, the Sojourner robot — weighing in at 23 pounds and rolling at a top speed of 0.02 miles per hour — was the first of five different explorer robots sent to Mars.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a flexible robot, inspired by origami, that can flatten itself to crawl into small spaces, scale steep inclines and withstand long … ...

French researchers are building an exploration robot that is set to reveal the secrets of mystery chambers inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. The new robot will be able to squeeze into a long narrow… ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --In the 2012 film Robot and Frank, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms of dementia. Concerned and guilty, his son buys him a "home ...

Exploring beneath the surface of other planets may be the key to determining whether life has ever existed outside of Earth. World News Meet ReachBot, a robot designed to explore Martian caves.

SpaceHopper is a three-legged robot explorer that should be able to jump around on asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

This spring, an underwater robot named Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) will start to explore the depths of the Zacaton Cenote in central Mexico, which is over 1,000 feet deep (more than ...