In 2017 a JPL robotics researcher tested new technologies in ice caves near an active volcano in Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is at the end of our world — and offers […]
In February 2023, researchers from around the country gathered at a NASA-sponsored workshop to discuss the latest developments and a roadmap for a cryobot mission concept to drill through the […]
Is there life in Martian caves? It’s a good question, but it’s not the right question—yet. An international collaboration of scientists led by NAU researcher Jut Wynne has dozens of […]
Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with paleontologists from Spain and Poland, used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitid, […]
The space race is entering a new era of exploration, in which the number of robotic and human missions to various places in our solar system is rapidly increasing.
For years, scientists have assumed that there are oceans of water beneath the ice covers on the moons Enceladus and Europa. Even in outer space, the presence of water can […]
Editor’s note: When we send robotic submersibles and rovers to other worlds to search for life in remote and hostile environments, we’re going to our droids to be as smart […]
Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to […]
How do you create a robot that can go places no one has ever seen before – on its own, without real-time human input? A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]
Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot’s movement is driven by a novel […]
