On Saturday, Michigan Technological University’s Copper Country Robotics Team (CCRT) began a three-day effort to build an ...

Michigan Technological University’s Copper Country Robotics Team (CCRT) completed its robot by noon Tuesday, finishing a ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the ...

7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

Engineers are currently testing a mining robot called RASSOR at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, capable of excavating lunar regolith to extract vital resources such as oxygen, hydrogen, or water.

The automation of mining through robots not only increases operational efficiency but also significantly reduces workers' exposure to extreme conditions. The use of robots allows workers to be moved ...

5-27-15 update: This year’s NASA Robotic Mining Competition was a struggle for Cyclone Space Mining. In the team’s first run in the mining arena, the left linear actuator wouldn’t lift the robot’s ...

Robots don’t belong on volleyball courts, but for more than a decade Virginia Tech students had no other large, sandy place to test out mining robots. It was “a real lost opportunity” that students ...