Tag: robotic exploration

In this workshop, we wish to review the state of the art and provide an outlook towards the future of robotic, planetary surface exploration. When: 29-30.10.2020 …

ESA’s vision for human spaceflight and robotic exploration is part of humanity’s road to the stars. Exploring is about visiting new places and coming back with …

Named for the Ancient Greek god of the Underworld, the Hadal Zone is the pitch-black part of our oceans below 6000 meters. Now, imagine a fleet of robots able …

Visions and clips from ESA’s future for human spaceflight and robotic exploration. Exploring is about visiting new places and coming back with new experiences …

The project Entern is concerned with technologies for the autonomous operation of robots in lunar and planetary exploration missions. It covers the subjects of …

Humans Vs Robots: There’s a big debate going on among people on who should lead space exploration, humans or robots! Robots are better at something, …

Will robots replace humans one day? When it comes to space exploration, robots are our precursors, gathering data to prepare humans for deep space.

Repairing a pipe in the 21st century requires us to dig up the road, remove the old pipe, put in a new pipe and then rebuild the road – there has to be a better way …

This video presents our recent results on Autonomous Exploration and Mapping in Underground Mines using Aerial Robots. It is research activity in the …

The emerging simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques enable robots with spatial awareness of the physical world. However, such awareness …

NASA in Silicon Valley Live is a talk show that features conversations with scientists, researchers, engineers and all-around cool people who work at NASA to …

Presented by Dr. Tracy Gregg (SUNY Buffalo) for the LPI 50th Anniversary Science Symposium held on March 17, 2018, in Houston, Texas.

Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission that will embark on a journey to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2026. Selected as part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, …

AI researchers are striving to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and enrich human experiences and capabilities. At the core is the …

Astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz and theoretical physicists Paul Davies & Ard Louis discuss with host Steve Paulson the importance of sending humans into …

A full mission video that presents an autonomous robotic system that circumnavigates a lunar pit and acquires imagery of it from the pit edges over a lunar day …

A full mission video that presents an autonomous robotic system that circumnavigates a lunar pit and acquires imagery of it from the pit edges over a lunar day …

Randii R. Wessen, Ph.D., is the Deputy Manager of the Project Formulation Office at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For 27 years, he has worked on …

Welcome to Cosmic Thursdays! This is a series of free, public lectures on astronomy. The lectures are designed with the general public in mind, and are fun, …

Meet Fernando Zumbado, a NASA robotic systems engineer who works with the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle, or MMSEV. Zumbado explains how …

Planetary scientist Dr. Stephen Clifford of the Lunar and Planetary Institute outlines how 50 years of robotic exploration of Mars has allowed us to ask these …

This video is about the future Analog Astronaut Class 2019 at the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF). Many thanks to Dr. Armin Wedler (German Aerospace Center’s …

Join me in our interstellar journey to remotely explore the red planet in Take On Mars.

This video presents indicative results of a sequence of field experiments conducted to verify and evaluate new algorithms and systems for autonomous …

Academician Mikhail Marov of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences, a pioneer of Soviet robotic …

Drone & Aerial Robotics Conference Mars Exploration Robotics Stephen Gorevan, Chairman / Honeybee Robotics The robotic exploration of Mars, once a …

Join me in our interstellar journey to remotely explore the red planet in Take On Mars.

This work presents a new strategy for autonomous graph-based exploration path planning in subterranean environments. Tailored to the fact that subterranean …

In this work, we present an approach for the detection of the direction of free space in order to improve the efficiency of robotic exploration by exploiting the …

Where should we be spending our money when it comes to the future of space travel – on human or robotic space exploration?

The Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center has more than 25 years of experience in building robots and developing software to allow …

In recent years, space agencies worldwide have shown an increasing interest in the exploration of small solar system bodies. Of special importance is direct …

In this video, two types of soft robotic grippers are shown successfully collecting coral samples at the bottom of the Red Sea. The first gripper features opposing …

This video presents coordinated multi-robot exploration based on Graph SLAM method and rapidly exploring random trees (RRT). The implementation is tested …

The talk will focus on key science results from missions currently in operation, including the astronomy missions Herschel, Planck, XMM-Newton, Integral, and …