NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid ...

Robonaut 2 in the Destiny U.S. Laboratory during the first use of the Robonaut Tele-operation System. Robonaut is a dexterous humanoid robot designed to manipulate hardware, work in high risk ...

The capsule splashed down off the California coast. Robonaut 2 robots in Houston. A Robonaut 2 has just returned to Earth for maintenance work.Credit: AP It was the second of two space-related ...

Robonaut 2 will hitch a ride on a Dragon spacecraft as a part of SpaceX's 14th commercial resupply mission, which is set to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than April 2 and is ...

NASA launched Robonaut 2 into space in February of 2011. This was a big deal: the humanoid robot would be the first of its kind in orbit. Robonaut was intended to help the astronauts aboard the ...

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 ...

Robonaut 2, for those not in the know, is NASA’s highly dexterous robot-astronaut that’s been assisting its ISS-based human counterparts with various tests and tasks since 2011. Sadly ...

The Robonaut 2 was sent up to the ISS in 2011, where it’s been assisting astronauts with simple tasks like inventory management and repair work ever since. But years in space have done a number ...

NASA is offering $10,000 in prizes to coders who create algorithms that improve the “vision” of Robonaut 2, the robot currently being tested on the International Space Station. Robonaut 2 ...

NASA’s humanoid robot looks like the offspring of a three-way between Daft Punk, C-3PO and a football player, and it goes by the name of R2 – Robonaut 2 if you’d like to get formal.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now has a humanoid robot aboard the International Space Station and it is equipped with the capability to work with astronauts during ...

NASA's Robonaut 2 has received a set of legs that will help it move around the station, and will eventually enable the bot to work on repairs both inside and outside the orbiting outpost.