Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has unveiled how its moon mining robot or In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx) will work on the lunar surface.

NASA's RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose, fragmental material on the moon's surface, inside of the Granular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine monitoring a robot working more than 200,000 miles away on the lunar surface — a stressful job, and one that requires ...

With NASA heading back to the moon with its Artemis campaign, the space agency is developing an army of autonomous lunar robots to make it happen. NASA’s CADRE rovers, short for Cooperative Autonomous ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — In their anxious quest to win a NASA competition to build the biggest mound of dirt on the moon, one robotics team here suddenly lost a wheel. Now — maybe you guessed — they’re ...

NASA’s Return to the Moon: Digging for Resources We compare and contrast NASA's trio of CADRE lunar rovers and its IPEx excavator to examine how this army of autonomous robots could pave the way for a ...

The new Lunar Autonomy Challenge invites teams of students from U.S. colleges and universities to test their software development skills. Working entirely in virtual simulations of the Moon’s surface, ...

The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...