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Precise Navigation using LEO Satellites, with Tyler Reid
Lilly Clark
02 Nov 2022
Dr. Tyler Reid, CTO of Xona Space Systems, discusses a new approach to global navigation satellite systems designed for self-driving cars.
How do we control robots on the moon?
In the future, we imagine that teams of robots will explore and develop the surface of nearby planets, moons and asteroids - taking samples, building structures, deploying instruments.
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Unconventional Space Robots, with Stephanie Schneider
Lilly Clark
17 Dec 2021
Schneider, PhD Candidate at Stanford, explains her work on Reachbot, a long-reach crawling and anchoring robot repurposes extendable booms for mobile manipulation in Outer Space. They discuss the challenges and exciting elements of robotic prototyping for low-gravity or otherwise unique environments.
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Exploring Venus with a Clockwork Rover, with Jonathan Sauder
Lilly Clark
04 Nov 2020
Robohub Podcast · Exploring Venus with a Clockwork Rover
In this episode, Lilly interviews Jonathan Sauder, the Principal Investigator of a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project to design a ro...
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Planetary Drilling, with Kris Zacny
Lilly Clark
07 Oct 2020
Robohub Podcast · Planetary Drilling
In this episode, Lilly Clark interviews Kris Zacny, the Vice President of Exploration Technologies at Honeybee Robotics. They discuss two focuses of developm...
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High Earth Orbit Robotics, with William Crowe
Lilly Clark
14 Jul 2020
Robohub Podcast · High Earth Orbit Robotics
In this episode, Lilly interviews Dr. William Crowe, CEO of High Earth Orbit (HEO) Robotics. The mission of HEO Robotics is to provide high quality imag...
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Seeing like a Rover, with Janet Vertessi
Audrow Nash
28 Apr 2020
Robohub Podcast · Seeing like a Rover
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Janet Vertessi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton, on her book Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, ...
NASA spinoffs: Bringing space down to Earth
Oliver Mitchell
24 Apr 2017
In a time of “America First,” the benefits of space travel are clouded by the smoke of hyperbole. In reality, there has been over 2,000 inventions courtesy of NASA that are making our lives bette...
Want to build a Moon base? Easy, just print it
Morgan Saletta
21 Apr 2017
Planetary Resources, a company hoping to make asteroid mining into a trillion dollar industry, earlier this year unveiled the world’s first 3D printed object made from bits of an asteroid.
3D pri...
Space for the masses as helium balloons and remote control planes reach through the stratosphere
Horizon Magazine
21 Nov 2016
Space will soon be within the grasp of everyday people, small countries, researchers or start-up companies thanks to a fleet of low-cost launch vehicles under development across Europe.
From remote...
Should both the successes and failures of space robots curb the ambition of a manned Mars mission?
Alex Kirkpatrick
11 Nov 2016
Late morning, red skies over Mars, and the first human interloper emerges from her landing craft to review the dusty expanse. As she eases carefully down the ladder towards the alien earth, her mind s...
The future of space rescue – watch the R2t2 event live
NCCR Robotics
02 Nov 2016
Today, the Swiss Robotics Industry Day will play host to the R2t2 rescue mission and we are heading straight for the future!...
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
MIT News
21 Oct 2016
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
Schiaparelli, are you there? The high risks of space robotics again crash home
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Oct 2016
In Darmstadt, Germany, European Space Agency (ESA) teams are scrambling to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli—the spectre of Philae still hau...
The four coolest NASA robots
Jibo
06 Oct 2016
NASA may be known for sending men to the moon, establishing the International Space Station, and planning for a base on Mars—but apart from astronauts, its best-known spokesmen aren’t men at all...
Drone learns to see in zero-gravity
Guido de Croon
03 Oct 2016
During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully learned by itself to see distances using only one eye, reported scientists at the 67th Inter...
Livestream: NASA’s final sample return robot competition
Robohub Editors
31 Aug 2016
After five years of competition by more than 40 different teams from around the globe, NASA’s Sample Return Robot Challenge has reached its final stage. The top seven teams will compete for the $1.3...
NASA Space Robotics Challenge prepares robots for the journey to Mars
Robohub Editors
18 Aug 2016
The Space Robotics Competition is open for teams to develop and display the abilities of an R5 robot by assisting in the procedures for a NASA mission to Mars, offering a $1 million prize pool for ...
Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration
Kassie Perlongo
11 May 2016
Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at how can robotics can be part of space exploration. Privatisation ...
MIT CSAIL’s 6-foot-tall NASA humanoid robot has landed
CSAIL MIT
28 Apr 2016
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
This week MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) received an unusual package: a six-foot-tall, 300-pound humanoid robot that NASA h...
SpaceX nails landing on drone ship
Kassie Perlongo
11 Apr 2016
After several unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX finally made a perfect touchdown with its Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship, aptly named: 'Of Course I Still Love You.' A historic moment with the help...
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Satellite Assembly in Space, with John Lymer
Andrew Vaziri
19 Mar 2016
In this episode, Andrew Vaziri speaks with John Lymer, Chief Architect of Robotics and Automation at SSL. They highlight key programs in space robotics from the 1980s through to SSL’s current progra...
‘Moon Shot’ nine-part documentary series available on YouTube
Kassie Perlongo
18 Mar 2016
The nine-part documentary web series about the Google Lunar XPRIZE that first launched on Google Play is now available YouTube....
SpaceX delivers 11 satellites and successfully lands a first stage on land
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2015
UPDATE: SpaceX successfully completed both the primary mission of setting to orbit 11 ORBCOMM satellites and the secondary mission of landing the first stage of Falcon 9 rocket with pinpoint accuracy ...
Blue Origin successfully tests autonomous suborbital system
Ioannis K. Erripis
03 May 2015
Fifteen years after it was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin completed a successful test flight of its ‘New Shepard’ suborbital system and emerged from their secretive modus operandi,...
Despite hard landing, Falcon 9 recovery attempt bodes well for future of reusable spacecraft
Ioannis K. Erripis
14 Jan 2015
Several hours ago, ISS astronauts opened the cargo bay of the Dragon spacecraft that was recently berthed to the space station. It was both the 7th successful Dragon mission and the 5th successful I...
Philae: A proof of concept for cometary landing
Alan Winfield
01 Dec 2014
We asked Alan Winfield what the first successful landing on a comet means for the future of space mining. Find out his answer below.
The successful landing of Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasim...
One giant leap: Rosetta and the space mining frontier
Kris Zacny
24 Nov 2014
The Rosetta mission’s dramatic rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captured the attention and imagination of the world earlier this month. It was thrilling to see an ambitious 10-year pr...
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae makes first ever landing on a comet
Ioannis K. Erripis
12 Nov 2014
UPDATE: ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03...
Antares orb-3 accident
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 Oct 2014
A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday. The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS explode...
UAE starts process of building Arab region’s first Mars probe | Gulf Business
Hallie Siegel
21 Oct 2014
The UAE has taken the “first practical steps” towards its mission of sending the Arab world’s first unmanned probe to Mars, the UAE’s VP and PM and Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid A...
ESA confirms primary landing site for Rosetta | ESA News
Robohub Editors
15 Oct 2014
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown o...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Mars Opportunity Rover sets off-world driving record | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
28 Jul 2014
From a NASA press release:
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. ...
Curiosity’s Martian anniversary selfie is a sign of the times
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
26 Jun 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year - 687 Earth days - spent exploring the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Robots, selfies and remote connectedne...
SpaceX unveils its next generation Dragon V2
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 May 2014
Tonight at 7PM PT SpaceX will reveal Dragon V2 -their next generation spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to space.
UPDATE: read our de-briefing of the presentation below...
