For four years, a lone robot sat on the dusty plains of Mars, listening. The InSight lander, a three-legged marvel of ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation ...

LASSIE (short for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analogue Environments) is a quadrupedal robot built by engineers at ...

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"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future ...

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White Sands isn’t the only place that the researchers have used as a training ground for the dog-like robot. They’ve also tested the robot on Mount Hood in Oregon, where icy volcanic slopes mimic the ...

Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers.

Separately, the NASA program of humans in space began as a cold war effort but has evolved significantly, especially since the end of the Shuttle era. The short-term goal for humans is embodied in the ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is helping make its fellow NASA space traveler, the InSight Lander, useful with its photos of the 'dead' robot.