The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.

robots still have a long way to go before they can build a space telescope. The authors' case study could be an important initial step. Their case study is the hypothetical LAST, a Large Aperture ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Scientists have created a robot that can learn tasks like cleaning a washbasin just by watching humans. A special sponge with sensors is used to show the robot how to clean.

Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts say, in a Science Robotics paper. Advances in generative AI and other areas could enable robots to assist ...

The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile ... Robot Identifies Plants by 'Touching' Their Leaves Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robot that ...

A new computer vision system inspired by the design of a feline eye could give future drones and other military robots the ability ... 18 in the journal Science Advances. They chose a cat's ...

Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was ...

Robot games have a robust history rich in ... Single-player may have us complete tests and explore the deserted depths of Aperture Science labs as a human, but between Glados, Wheatley, and ...

Learn more › In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT ...

The idea of a robot that does a wide range of household chores, from unloading the dryer to folding laundry to cleaning up a messy table, has long seemed like pure science fiction—perhaps most ...