The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space, on Thursday (Oct. 24). The two-armed, two-legged robotic testbed ...

Today, with a humanoid robot—NASA’s Robonaut 2—aboard the International Space Station, it seems as if the descendants of Joe Slowik’s articulated dummy are hard at work in the real world.

It's "something that sounds extremely trivial, but robots are very dumb so you have to tell them everything," Badger said. R1 and R2 aren't the only robonauts NASA has built. The agency also has ...

Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space. Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?

Taikobot won’t be the first humanoid robot sent to space, however. NASA’s Robonaut-2 is widely seen as the first humanoid in space, launched to the International Space Station in 2011.

Part Transformer, part Star Wars stormtrooper and with hands that look like they can crush beer cans, at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 120 kilograms, NASA’s Valkyrie robot is an intimidating figure.

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NASA’s RASSOR robot is headed to the Moon, and it’s designed to dig into the surface. The robot uses a drum to scoop up lunar surface material and then transport it to new locations ...

So NASA is developing small robots that can be ready for any environment by morphing into rolling spheres, flying drones, cave explorers, and even swimming submersibles. The project is called ...

NASA’s Valkyrie was designed and built by the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Engineering Directorate to compete in the 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials. Building on prior experience from ...

Not to be mistaken for a spaghetti-legged member of Daft Punk, NASA's Robonaut 2 was actually the first humanoid robot ever sent to space. Clip: And are you sure this guy isn't related to Hal?