NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools into autonomous partners tasked with keeping crews alive far from home.

A team led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg has developed an inchworm-inspired ...

The results showed that robots equipped with compact instruments can greatly improve efficiency. This method speeds up both resource prospecting and the search for ‘biosignatures’ (ie, evidence of ...

You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio signals from Earth take up to 22 minutes to arrive. This simple fact has stalled space construction for decades. The dream of building in space ...

It’s tough being a robot trekking along the dry, arid terrain of another planet with no humans around. NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent the past 13 years drilling through samples on Mars, and one rock ...

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...

Can autonomous robots help cut space exploration times? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Space Technologies hopes to address as a team of scientists from Switzerland and the ...

An Image from NASA showing the Tharsis face of Mars, a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere of the planet. You can't joystick a robot on Mars in real time. Radio ...