A NASA-backed robot will throw out the first pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Twins game in a futuristic twist to JPL ...

Back in 2014, a robot named "Bruce," a creation of the Paradise Valley High School robotics club, made headlines by tossing ...

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 ...

The robots must be less than 2 meters tall and able to kick a regulation football over a two-meter obstacle into a trash can, according to the rules posted on JPL’s website.

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 robot uses special gripping technology that has helped lead to a series of new, off-roading robots that can explore other worlds Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

As robotic cars come closer to reality, the California Institute of Technology is looking at the next generation of autonomous vehicles, from humanoid robots that can reason and hike thousands of ...

(via NASA JPL) A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor).Inspired by a desire to descend vents on Saturn’s icy ...

Made up of 60 members from JPL, Caltech, MIT and KAIST, the Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Resilient Robots Systems (CoSTAR) team is entering the contest in order to get some practice for a ...

The crawling robot, Lemur, was built to help astronauts complete small jobs in space. “Lemur could be an astronauts pet monkey,” says JPL engineer Brett Kennedy who designed the 6-limbed robot.