Robotics

Robotics
Sunita L. Williams
In this picture from Nov. 15, 2024, Astronaut Suni Williams imitates the tentacle-like arms of the Astrobee robotic free-flyer in the foreground. Astrobee robots help astronauts reduce time they spend on routine duties, leaving them to focus more on the things that only humans can do.
Posted December 3, 2024
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Ocean Worlds
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds.
Posted November 20, 2024
Climate Change
Climate Science
Cryosphere
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robotics
Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick layer of sea […]
Posted August 29, 2024
Robotics
Ames Research Center
Astronauts
For Colleges & Universities
General
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Learning Resources
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA is seeking input from American companies for the operation and use of a system of free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station as the agency continues to foster scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit for the benefit of all.
Posted August 27, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Astrobiology
High-Tech Computing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
Robotics
Science-enabling Technology
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with “smart” spacecraft that know exactly what data to look for, where to find it, and how to analyze it.
Posted July 16, 2024
Mars
Commercial Space
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robotics
Science-enabling Technology
Space Communications Technology
Technology Research
The Future of Commercial Space
Nine companies have been selected to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet. NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars.
Posted May 1, 2024
Technology
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California […]
Posted March 7, 2024
NASA en español
Earth's Moon
General
Planetary Science Division
Robotics
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
El público tendrá un asiento de primera fila y en directo para ver cómo el primer rover lunar robótico de la NASA cobra forma en la sala limpia de la Instalación de Pruebas de Integración de Segmentos de Superficie en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la agencia en Houston. Los integrantes de la misión del […]
Posted November 3, 2023
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