Look out, astronauts – your companion robot on the International Space Station is now mobile! NASA's Robonaut 2 has received a set of legs that will help it move around the station, and will ...

(Phys.org) —Getting your "space legs" in Earth orbit has taken on new meaning for NASA's pioneering Robonaut program. Thanks to a successful launch of the SpaceX-3 flight of the Falcon 9/Dragon ...

Not content to simply stand in one place, NASA's mechanical astronaut has found not one, but two new bodies that will allow it to move across land and space. Robonaut B, a robot built with humanlike ...

Robonaut 2 in the Destiny U.S. Laboratory during the first use of the Robonaut Tele-operation System. Robonaut is a dexterous humanoid robot designed to manipulate hardware, work in high risk ...

Picture this: Astronauts floating in weightlessness sip cups of coffee while staring out the windows of the International Space Station. They're looking at a vaguely human-like figure as it scuttles ...

Having blasted off into space on February 24 this year, Robonaut 2 — the first humanoid robot destined to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station — is now unpacked and being ...

Apex, NC, June 14, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Laura A. Schoppe, President of Fuentek, LLC (http://www.fuentek.com), a local consulting firm that provides intellectual property ...

NASA is packing up a 300-pound robot helper for a trip to the International Space Station later this year. The humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, is not exactly riding first class into space. Instead ...

Robonaut Project lead, Robotics Systems Technology Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston.. Best known for: Diftler leads the team from NASA and General ...