Future space activities will increasingly depend on autonomous systems that can construct, maintain, and expand infrastructure long before, and long after, ...
Vehicles and buildings designed to enable survival in extreme environments, such as spacecraft, submarines and sealed ...
What’s the difference between deep space and the deep sea? For a robot, the answer is: not much. Both environments are harsh and demanding, and, more importantly, both are far removed from the machine ...
Astronauts could take advantage of local resources while living and working on the Moon and Mars. Robot helpers could help find and extract the resources – water, oxygen, and more – before humans even ...
For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface each 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing ...
Why are we asking this question now? Professor Stephen Hawking has just completed a series of "zero-gravity" dives in an aircraft designed to test weightlessness in space. Hawking, one of the foremost ...
New York, United States, Jan. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Autonomous and automated are characteristics of space robots. They are composed of mechanical, electrical, and electronic subassemblies. They ...
Het bedrijf Planetary Resources heeft plannen om in de ruimte met robots water en kostbare materialen te gaan delven. Daarbij heeft het bedrijf het gemunt op asteroïden. Over twee jaar moet het eerste ...
Twee bijzondere collecties zijn de basis voor een nieuwe tentoonstelling “Robots & Space Toys” in het Museum van de Twintigste Eeuw (van 17-11-2012 t/m 28-4-2013). Wijlen ‘kunstverteller’ Pierre ...