NASA is packing up a 300-pound robot helper for a trip to the International Space Station later this year. The humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, is not exactly riding first class into space. Instead ...

NASA's humanoid robot is losing its sight, so the space agency is turning to the public for help. Robonaut 2 currently serves as a helper/repair robot aboard the International Space Station. It IS ...

After 15 years of preparation, the first human-like robot designed for use in space is ready for launch. The robot helper, called Robonaut 2, is packed in a box-within-a-box and cushioned with foam ...

Picture this: Astronauts floating in weightlessness sip cups of coffee while staring out the windows of the International Space Station. They're looking at a vaguely human-like figure as it scuttles ...

Robotkind got NASA to send one of their own into space today--an unassuming humanoid "robot butler" that will be in the perfect spot to destroy Earth from orbit. Sporting a terrifying mask, touting ...

History is full of famous handshakes that symbolize a permanent change in the status quo. The 1945 Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin triple handshake. The 1961 Kennedy-Khrushchev handshake. The 1972 ...

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 ...

A robotic humanoid astronaut on the International Space Station is about to get its legs. NASA has crafted a pair of space legs for Robonaut 2, its robotic astronaut torso on the space station now.

A camera-toting balloon captured dramatic photos of NASA's shuttle Discovery streaking into orbit on its final flight yesterday (Feb. 24), snapping the images from the edge of space as part of a ...

NASA's humanoid robot astronaut is getting its space legs. The space agency is building lower limbs for Robonaut 2, a robot designed to eventually help astronauts by taking over some of their duties ...

Rock band Coheed and Cambria's drummer Josh Eppard shakes Robonaut 2's hand at NASA's Johnson Space Center In Houston, Texas - Sept. 17th, 2014 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space is about to get its first humanoid from Earth. Robonaut 2 this week is hitching a one-way ride to the international space station aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It’s ...