Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two NASA astronauts floating outside the International Space Station carried out a bit of orbital surgery Tuesday, successfully ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two NASA astronauts take a spacewalk to work on a robotics repair outside the International Space Station.

The world’s first robot astronaut has begun chatting to the Japanese commander of the International Space Station, in what was being billed as the first conversation of its kind. Kirobo, a pint-sized ...

Zurich’s Orbit Robotics built a four-armed space robot called Helios. It targets the 35% of crew time spent on maintenance at $140K/hour. Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a ...

A primate-inspired space robot named Helios has been developed by students. Helios, who was born at ETH Zurich (the Federal Institute of Technology) in Switzerland, has been designed to change how ...