The people who designed rovers to explore Mars are developing a slithering robot to search for signs of life in watery environments, such as the moon Enceladus. EELS robot may help JPL look for ...

A few years ago, 17-year-old Kaitlyn Waldman was pressured to join FIRST robotics team 980, much to her disliking. The 14-year-old team, also known as the “ThunderBots,” is made up of a group ...

NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice. 5d. Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves.

Oak Ridge High Class of '82 grad Ron Garret worked with JPL, Google, formed several companies, made a film, and more.

The RoboSimian is NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s entry into the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition to create an emergency response robot.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on the hunt for a more natural way to maneuver robots in space for some time now, resulting in cool experiments like using a Leap Motion controller to ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's official entry, RoboSimian, is seen in this image as it awaits the first event at the DARPA Robotics Challenge in December 2013. Also known as "Clyde," the robot is ...

“These robots are a platform to bring science instruments to the hardest-to-reach locations on Earth,” said Paul Glick, JPL robotics mechanical engineer and IceNode principal investigator.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 3w Robots built by high schoolers vied for points in a fast-moving game inspired by complex ocean ecosystems at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition.

Two prototype robots, one from JPL and one from Stanford, have now been tested in microgravity in NASA's C-9 aircraft. As the plane flies along a parabolic path, ...

Episode 6 of the DARPA's Road to the Finals series has us visiting Pasadena, Calif., where scientists for NASA's JPL are preparing two robots for the June 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge finals.

The RoboSimian is NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s entry into the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition to create an emergency response robot.