Jan 2, 2025 · We can send robots to explore space without having to worry so much about their safety. Of course, we want these carefully built robots to last. We need them to stick around long enough to investigate and send us information about their destinations. But even if a robotic mission fails, the humans involved with the mission stay safe.

Feb 12, 2024 · Robotics are critical for human spaceflight as they enhance mission success by enabling dexterous manipulation, autonomous vehicle operation, and efficient system management, thereby reducing human risk and expanding the capabilities for exploration in the challenging environments of space.

Nov 6, 2024 · Here we present a modular autonomous platform for general exploratory synthetic chemistry. It uses mobile robots to operate a Chemspeed ISynth synthesis platform, an ultrahigh-performance...

Nov 20, 2024 · JPL is the lead NASA center for robotic exploration, which means we send robots, not humans, into space. NASA has plans in the works to overcome huge challenges and send humans to Mars.

Jan 21, 2015 · Robots are indispensable to planetary exploration and in the exploration of our solar system. Reconnaissance of a planet surface on-site is conducted by mobile robot systems, for the most part by rovers or walking machines specially designed for forward movement in impassable terrain.

Oct 10, 2023 · From space-junk-collecting claws to all-terrain robodogs, these semi- autonomous machines withstand harsh conditions in zero gravity to aid missions and automate space exploration. Rovers gather first-hand data about moons and planets by driving about the terrain and taking samples of a surface’s crust.

Jan 30, 2024 · NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project is developing a network of shoe-box-sized mobile robots that could enable future autonomous robotic exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The CADRE robots are the latest version of NASA’s A-PUFFER technology.

Jul 7, 2021 · Victoria Preston, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI joint program, is helping to design robots that can independently navigate to sites where they can take samples or measurements that will be most useful to environmental scientists.

Exploration Robotics is all about sending mobile robots into natural or artificial environments where people can’t go (or don’t want to go) in order to gather valuable sensory data and, sometimes, perform physical tasks.

Nov 2, 2024 · This infographic highlights NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity. The rovers landed on the Red Planet in 2004, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. Spirit concluded its mission in 2010. Opportunity last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm ...