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 ...

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 ...

Robonaut 2 was chosen as the NASA Government Invention of the Year for 2014. Astronauts are testing to see if Robonaut 2 could be used to perform medical tasks in space, guided by doctors on the ...

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 ...

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.

Look out, astronauts – your companion robot on the International Space Station is now mobile! NASA's Robonaut 2 has received a set of legs that will help it move around the station, and will ...

Before Robonaut 2, the humanoid robot aboard the International Space Station, could take its first steps later this year, it needed legs. Expedition 40 commander Steve Swanson attached them last ...