Before there was R2, however, there was Robonaut 1A, R2’s older sibling. Unlike R2, Robonaut 1A has no legs, but with its broad shoulders and thick forearms, R1A’s physique is, well, jacked.

Vacuuming is a bit of a chore at the best of times, which is why many people have a robot to do it for them, or even pay ...

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station tested an "intelligent flight robot," checked on a fruit fly experiment ...

Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task—a first test of a new approach to combine human and ...

The European Space Agency has been doing a series of robotic teleoperation experiments where an astronaut abroad on the ISS controls a robot back on the ground.

That includes researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who are developing a set of wearable robotic limbs to help astronauts recover from falls.

The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a nondescript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as ...

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?

A Robot Just Might Be an Astronaut’s Best Friend When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut.