Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots

Icarus just raised a $6.1 million seed round led by Soma Capital and Xtal, with participation from Nebular and Massive Tech ...
KVUE

Aspiring mechanical engineers at UT Austin creating robots for the present and future

AUSTIN — Robots are meant to make our jobs easier, but there are many questions about how we are supposed to interact with robots and how they will interact with us. Thanks to the work from some ...
The Debrief

US Navy Scientists Teach Zero-Gravity Robot to Fly in Space Without Human Interference

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without human interference.
NPR

At a desert festival for space robots, engineers envision a busy future in space

At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond. People love ...
techtimes

Real-Life Gundam? Japanese Engineers Create Robot for Space Exploration, Disaster Relief

A Tokyo startup created ARCHAX, a $3 million robot that looks like "Mobile Suit Gundam" from the popular mecha-anime series. Bruce Tang from Unsplash Engineers in Japan have developed a colossal ...
New York Post

Salto the squirrelly robot could be the future of space exploration — and challenging rescue operations here on Earth: researchers

Engineers developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design, which they say could also help in search and rescue missions during ...