Rock band Coheed and Cambria's drummer Josh Eppard shakes Robonaut 2's hand at NASA's Johnson Space Center In Houston, Texas - Sept. 17th, 2014 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

Robonaut 2, a robot designed to help astronauts with difficult tasks, will leave the earth behind and start his new life on the International Space Station in November. Check out what he can do now — ...

Robonaut 2, NASA’s first humanoid robot in space, was selected as the NASA Government Invention of the Year for 2014. Many outstanding inventions were considered for this award, and Robonaut 2 was ...

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The humanoid robot set to join the STS-133 mission on the space shuttle Discovery will be enclosed in specially constructed packaging called Sleepr (Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect ...

If you ever visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center and get to meet the Robonaut 2 prototype, be sure to shake the robot’s hand, since it can do that, and congratulate it. The actual Robonaut 2 (R2), the ...

NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General ...

Hundreds of people from at least 15 different countries have journeyed to the International Space Station (ISS), but the habitable artificial satellite has only hosted human astronauts, until the ...

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.

Robonaut 2 — or R2 for short — is now tweeting at www.twitter.com/AstroRobonaut. With the help of its team, the robot sent its first tweet on July 26. R2 will be ...