These configurable bots could launch flat and then be assembled in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly designed ...

Robotic ‘spiders’ could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...

With all the sci-fi movies and books at our disposal, and with our imagination fueled even further by the increasingly daring space missions our species is attempting, it's not hard to imagine a ...

It'll be joined by a bunch of equally impressive experiments such as machine learning devices and artificial retina prototypes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Remote-controlled robots could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK. The company used two remotely operated robotic arms to assemble a section of the support ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

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. Lemur ...