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When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...

Humanoid robots are on the brink of being commercially useful, say Chinese and US firms that in the past three months have announced plans to produce them at scale. Many researchers agree that there ...

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any crew arrives. In meeting rooms, laboratories, and control centres, scientists ...

From the depths of the ocean to the craters of the moon, Carnegie Mellon University has spent more than 40 years designing robots for the most extreme environments. On Feb. 27, the university will ...