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The results showed that robots equipped with compact instruments can greatly improve efficiency. This method speeds up both ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Space-tech firm Voyager Technologies and robotics startup Icarus Robotics have been contracted to demonstrate a free-flying robot on the International Space Station. (Brendan McDermid, Reuters) ...

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

China is preparing to send a humanoid robot into orbit, positioning a private startup at the center of a new race to put artificial intelligence to work in space. Chinese firm Engine AI says its ...

AI makes ISS robot navigation 50–60% faster, marking the first in-orbit demonstration of machine-learning-based motion control. The system handles the station’s cluttered, narrow interior, where ...

Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks – all without an astronaut at the ...

Hundreds of people from at least 15 different countries have journeyed to the International Space Station (ISS), but the habitable artificial satellite has only hosted human astronauts, until the ...

Apollo, a human sized robot built by Texas based startup Apptronik, is quietly moving from pilot shifts on factory floors toward a role in deep space exploration. The same design that lets it lift ...

March 30 (Reuters) - Space-tech firm Voyager Technologies has secured a mission management contract with robotics ‌startup Icarus Robotics to demonstrate a free-flying robotic ‌system on the ...