7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity environments, an advance that could revolutionise the exploration of ...

Human dreams of mining asteroids won't become a reality without space robots. The billionaire-backed company Planetary Resources has announced plans to do the dirty, dangerous job of space mining with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface.

5-23-16 update: Cyclone Space Mining was so close to big mining runs at NASA’s annual robotics competition. But, a broken frame disabled one of the team’s two robots during the team’s first run. Then, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The harsh realities of extraterrestrial terrain have often hindered space agencies' ambitions of exploring various celestial ...

China has moved space mining from science fiction to near-term planning, tying robotic asteroid missions, lunar resource surveys, and nuclear-powered bases into a single industrial strategy. Instead ...

A cat-like exploration robot could one day scramble over the surface of asteroids using a unique movement system designed to keep it in motion even in the most extreme conditions. Scientists designed ...

Video. Greenpeace used a robot more than 2,300 metres below the ocean surface to unfurl a “Listen to the Science” banner in protest against deep-sea mining.

Amar Hanspal, a senior VP at 3D design software maker Autodesk, said at a recent IoT event: “Amazon talks about delivering pizza with drones, but the real action is B2B. Industrial applications are ...