Robotics

Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Moon Base
Robotics
STEM Engagement at NASA
Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, to correct the recipient of the Systems Engineering Leaps and Bounds Award. Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base.
Posted May 27, 2026
Mars
Robotics
Technology Research
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year. When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways to create Mars-like conditions here on Earth. Then they test, tinker, and repeat.  That’s […]
Posted December 2, 2025
Ames Research Center
ISS Research
Robotics
NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California, who was awarded a reimbursable Space Act Agreement to sustain and maintain the robotic platform aboard the International Space Station.
Posted September 24, 2025
For Colleges & Universities
Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Learning Resources
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Project Management & Systems Engineering
Robotics
STEM Engagement at NASA
Student Opportunities
Telerobotics
As college students across the country embark upon the academic year, NASA is giving them something else to look forward to – the agency’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge. Teams interested in participating can submit their applications and supporting materials through NASA’s Stem Gateway portal beginning Monday, Sept. 8.
Posted September 8, 2025
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
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