The events of “Alien: Earth” stem from a proprietary battle between Weyland-Yutani, the film franchise’s star corporation, ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is of like mind. Earlier this year, Musk said that the company aims to launch a small, ...

Crew cooperation will always be vital in any manned space exploration mission, even if some of those crewmembers are not human.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers are using machine learning to train a robot to recognize a jumbled pile of items, locate the one item it needs and retrieve it in the most ...

If nuclear-powered spaceflight is ever realized, there will be a need for new types of robots to perform dangerous maintenance tasks.

In April 2021, Bumble, one of the free-flying Astrobee robots aboard the International Space Station, was put to the test to investigate a simulated anomaly. In the simulation, the station’s ...

But what does that mean for future generations of budding astronauts – and surely there are certain functions that humans can do in space but which robots, however advanced, never could?

From asteroid mining to on-orbit servicing, autonomous robots are key to the future of space exploration and defense.

Robots already outnumber humans in space, and it will be increasingly advanced robots that we send in the future.

Smart robots building space stations in orbit may be in the future, but there are plenty of other examples of how smart robots and automation are becoming critical to the future of spaceflight.