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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...

Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition

Oliver Bendel 09 Jun 2014

People take selfies with smartphones and digital cameras (or even with flying robots), and share them on social media, blogs, microblogs and image platforms for social purposes, and though selfies m...

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...

Extreme-environment robotics under development at Keio University

DigInfo TV 20 May 2014

At Keio University in Japan, the Ishigami Laboratory, in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, is investigating robotic mobility systems. The main mission of thi...

ROS goes to space!

Robohub Editors 13 Mar 2014

As part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station, ROS will board a SpaceX Rocket on March 16 and, barring inclement weather, will launch into space. According to a blogpost by Brian Ge...

Robonaut doctor to practice in space

Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence 12 Mar 2014

Astronauts all know how important it is to stay healthy in space. Weightlessness alone can cause a number of physiological changes including muscle atrophy, loss of blood volume and bone loss. Most as...

Back on Earth

Jim Haas 28 Feb 2014

I guess all those other Mars rovers just landed in the wrong spot? I had this idea yesterday to try something a little different. In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want ...

Mission to Mars, Part 8

Jim Haas 21 Feb 2014

The mission to Mars concludes now that Nate is back on Earth, but do you think the adventure is really over? Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....

Mission to Mars, Part 7

Jim Haas 17 Feb 2014

Stay tuned next week for the exciting conclusion of Nate's "mission to Mars" experience. As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....

Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live

Ioannis K. Erripis 17 Jan 2014

NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...

GLXP Update: Penn State Lunar Lions now in #3 spot

Robert Morris 07 Jan 2014

What are they putting in the water in the Keystone state? It turns out that Penn State Lunar Lions team announced plans to get launched to the moon as well. They have made a deposit for a ride in ...

Video: Panel discussion celebrating 10 years of the Mars Exploration Rover

Robohub Editors 06 Jan 2014

Tuesday, Jan. 7, 10:30AM - 12PM Eastern Time: NASA and the Smithsonian team up to facilitate two panel discussions on Mars robotic and human missions. Held in NASM's Moving Beyond Earth gallery, par...

Mission to Mars

Jim Haas 03 Jan 2014

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break! As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....

China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg

Frank Tobe 20 Dec 2013

Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”), China's rover-like robot was soft-landed on the moon earlier this month. China's plans to become a global leader in robotics and space exploration are just beginning to be s...

Soft robotics in space

Alan Winfield 14 Dec 2013

Space robotics is understandably conservative. When the cost of putting a robot on a planet, moon or asteroid runs into the billions we need to be sure the technology will work. And with very long pro...

Google Lunar X Prize leader board: Barcelona Moon Team schedules launch ahead of Astrobotic, Moon Express, and Team Indus

Robert Morris 09 Dec 2013

The private space race is on! With the $40M at stake from the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) leading other private and pseudo-private investment, this is a real race. I, for one, love racing. By foot, ...

CubeSats: Launching education into space

Hallie Siegel 06 Dec 2013

Three Cubesats were deployed November 19, 2013 from a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) attached to the Kibo laboratory’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA. Four more student-built CubeSat rese...

Air, water, energy and food in a nutshell: Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture

Nikolaus Correll 04 Nov 2013

University of Colorado's robotic plant growth is demonstrated at the Kennedy Space Center. Source: NASA. Targeting a sustainable presence of humans in outer space will require solving air, water, ...

NASA closes most of its doors due to US Congress shutdown, but Jet Propulsion Lab continues operating

Hallie Siegel 02 Oct 2013

We had hoped to be sharing highlights with you this week from NASA's Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop, which was scheduled to run this September 30 to October 2 at the Lunar Planetary Ins...

NASA to host workshop exploring ideas for protecting Earth from asteroids | NASA News Release

Robohub Editors 04 Sep 2013

NASA has chosen 96 ideas it regards as most promising from more than 400 submitted in response to its June request for information (RFI) about protecting Earth from asteroids and finding an asteroid h...

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully completes 100m lateral maneuver before returning to launchpad

Robohub Editors 14 Aug 2013

Yesterday SpaceX's Falcon 9 test rig (code name Grasshopper) successfully completed a 100m lateral maneuver, beginning at an altitude of 250m, before returning to the center of the pad from which it w...

Talking robot sent into space

Frank Tobe 04 Aug 2013

Kirobo, a 13” humanoid robot, was launched today and is on its way to the International Space Station. A mashup of the Japanese word for hope, “Kibo”, and “robot”, Kirobo is designed to b...

SpaceX awarded launch reservation contract with MDA Robotics for Canadian satellite program

Hallie Siegel 30 Jul 2013

The Falcon 9 rocket in the hangar at SpaceX's launch site at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: SpaceX. Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced today that, in 2018, it will...

More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi

Andra Keay 11 Jul 2013

NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Ki...

Astronaut on International Space Station successfully controls K10 rover on Earth, supporting use of telerobotics in future deep space missions

Terry Fong 02 Jul 2013

On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robo...