U.S. robotics startup Icarus Robotics has begun preparations to send robots to the International Space Station. The news comes after the firm secured $6.1 million in an oversubscribed seed round a ...

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Planetary exploration may be about to get a major speed boost. Researchers tested a semi-autonomous robot that can move from ...

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced the release of MolmoAct 7B, a breakthrough open embodied AI model that brings intelligence to ...

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 ...

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 ...

To be safely and reliably deployed in outer space, underwater and in other extreme environments, robots need to be able to ...

Uniersity of Cincinnati aerospace engineers are studying simple but effective ways that autonomous robots can maintain orientation in zero gravity. To keep a repair robot stable while fixing ...