NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of, ... The commercialization of asteroid mining is still a ways off, but in October 2023, ...

Asteroid Mining Corp. executives from left to right: Head of American Operations Wes Faires; Chief Robotics Engineer Mickael Laine and CEO Mitch Hunter-Scullion with Richard Lochhead, Scotland's ...

Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...

A cat-like exploration robot could one day scramble over the surface of asteroids using a unique movement system designed to ...

LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / November 4, 2023 / UK-based Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) unveils the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorer (SCAR-E) in the US, Japan and South Korea.SCAR-E, a six ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

Together, they have built a six-legged robot called the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorer, or SCAR-E. Designed to operate in microgravity, it can crawl around a rugged surface and take data ...

Jay McMahon's work on soft robots for space exploration and mining is being highlighted by IEEE Spectrum. McMahon, an associate professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.

Robot cat built to always stick landing could revolutionise asteroid mining, scientists say. Scientists test robot in microgravity simulation to confirmed effectiveness ...

A cat-like exploration robot could one day scramble over the surface of asteroids using a unique movement system designed to keep it in motion even in the most extreme conditions. Scientists ...

Scientists test robot in microgravity simulation to confirmed effectiveness. In 2018, Japan made history by landing two cookie jar-sized jumping rovers onto the rocky asteroid Ryugu about 280 ...