Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

A robot works in a simulated environment for space mining at a lab of China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Provided to China Daily The prospect of space mining ...

Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all. [aaedmusa] was a long way off that speed, but his robot is an absolute demon that solves at a rapid pace. The robot ...

And it is, for humans. That’s right, the human record holder completed a cube in 6.24 seconds… faster than a robot by almost four seconds. It’s surprising that we can still beat mechanized ...

"It allows the robot to stay anchored while collecting samples and move efficiently based on the terrain." Globally, the issue of space resources has been a hot topic among scientists for many years.

here on the space station,” Ayers ... take care of tasks “that require a human touch.” The compact, cube-shaped flying robots were developed and built at NASA’s Ames Research Center ...

A robot developed by five young engineers at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest to solve a 3x3x3 puzzle cube--almost as quickly as the blink of an eye.