Nearly half a century after NASA engineers first sketched a machine that could spin massive structures in orbit like a spider ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

Researchers have completed the first in-space demonstration of a deep learning method that accelerates trajectory optimization for the Astrobee free-flying robot aboard the International Space Station ...

AI makes ISS robot navigation 50–60% faster, marking the first in-orbit demonstration of machine-learning-based motion control. The system handles the station’s cluttered, narrow interior, where ...

How can an AI robot help improve human space exploration? This is what a recent study presented at the 2025 International Conference on Space Robotics hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Rees and Goldsmith have taken to the United Kingdom-based Guardian to express their disdain for human spaceflight. Their ...

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Hundreds of people from at least 15 different countries have journeyed to the International Space Station (ISS), but the habitable artificial satellite has only hosted human astronauts, until the ...