NASA’s Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot currently stationed on the International Space Station, is undergoing “training” with the hopes that it may eventually be able to perform medical and surgical tasks ...

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Diane Tedeschi Robonaut 1A was a test unit in the robotics lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

An AI-powered robot has completed a groundbreaking surgical procedure, potentially changing the future of medicine forever. The bot successfully separated the gall bladder from the liver of a dead pig ...

Robonaut 1A is a remotely operated, experimental astronaut assistant developed by NASA and DARPA to handle tools and other small objects. In 2011 NASA sent Robonaut 2 to the International Space ...

Fedor is not the first robot to go into space. In 2011, NASA sent up Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot developed with General Motors and a similar aim of working in high-risk environments. It was flown ...

When you read about robotics and human assistance devices, the inception-to-commercial-reality arrow usually points from military or space-based research back to civilian applications, say in the ...