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NASA crews will bring their own droid on the next Moon trips

NASA’s next generation of Moon crews will not step onto the regolith alone. Alongside the astronauts, compact robotic “droids ...
EDN

Robotnaut 2— the first humanoid robot in space

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 ...
Forbes

Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots Face Speedy Downfall On Mars, Scholar Says

Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read ...

Lost in space: How ’digital twins’ saved NASA’s robots

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...
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8 weird robots NASA wants to send to space

NASA is developing a bunch of robots it wants to send to space. Some are humanoid like the RoboSimian and Robonaut 2. But other bots like the Ice Worm, Astrobee, and LEMUR are more abstract. Of course ...

Encore: This CEO Says Humanoid Robots Are The "Space Race" of Our Time

Who acts as caregiver in old age? Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas is betting on robots. On WSJ's Bold Names podcast, he discusses ...