On-orbit assembly has become a crucial aspect of space operations, where the manipulator frequently and directly interacts with objects in a complex assembly process. The traditional manipulator ...

The Novawurks Experiment for Cellular Integration Technologies, or Excite, launched in 2018 to test the company’s modular satellite architecture in low-Earth orbit. Each modular satellite component, ...

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation today announced it has begun developing flight models of its unique telerobotic end effectors for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

The U.S. Space Force awarded a $1.6 million contract to an Arkisys-led commercial team to initially test the spacecraft-assembling technology on the ground. Reading time 2 minutes In an effort to ...

Within a few years, NASA’s OSAM-1 mission will launch into space and use a robotic arm to refuel the Landsat 7 Earth-observation satellite, as shown in this animation. NASA For more than 20 years, the ...

TL;DR: It's difficult and expensive to repair satellites in space. So NASA is building semi-autonomous robots to service them in orbit. They also want to build stuff in orbit from scratch. When ...

For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface each 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing ...

In assembly lines, robots are programmed to perform a single task with high precision. Consider the example of automobile assembly, depicted in the picture above. Cars move along a conveyor belt, ...

Humans have a way of understandings others' goals, desires and beliefs, a crucial skill that allows us to anticipate people's actions. Taking bread out of the toaster? You'll need a plate. Sweeping up ...