The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the future, robots could actively assist astronauts onboard space stations to conduct complex tasks. Towards this, astronauts ...

Credit: Ai-Da/Aidan Meller/Cover Images A British-built humanoid robot has become the first of her kind to design a home for future space habitats. Ai-Da, a robot artist created by Oxford art expert ...

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 ...

Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025. The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture ...

Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wish you could have help completing a task? Maybe you need to move big boxes around or build a piece of furniture in your room. Someday in the near future, a robot might be the answer. It already ...