19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
...Soyuz-MS spacecraft and the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, but it will also carry an interesting payload onboard; a humanoid robot known as Skybot F-850. Previously called Fedor, which stands for “Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research,” Skybot...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... conditions and testing of plume-regolith problems and interactions (see Figure 7). The facility is aligned with ESA’s robotic exploration programme requirements for missions including Mars Sample Return. A critical aspect of its work involves the...
16 April 2024
The End Of Astronauts Why Robots are the Future of Exploration
... what it says on the tin’ books. The title suggests astronauts are surplus to requirements; the subtitle substitutes robotic explorers; and most spacers know the UK Astronomer Royal’s views on sending humans into space. So this is very...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... integrated in the fabric. Simulation astronaut supports rover on a steep slope. Interactive displays A more traditional approach for robot-control by a suited astronaut was the use of interactive displays. Both a chest-mounted and wrist-mounted unit...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...that we should be inspired by a new generation of robotic space explorers that can venture further and faster into space... they ever were) to human spaceflight! Robotic explorers Satellites are our robotic partners, observing our Earth, visiting our ...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... least risk tolerant (expensive flagship or human spaceflight missions) and Class D is the most risk tolerant (smaller robotic missions). LCROSS and RP are both designated Class D missions. This classification enables accepting greater technical and...
