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NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot built for Mars research returns to US after 10 years

A humanoid robot developed by NASA for future Mars missions is set to return ...

NASA robot returning to US for Mars trip after decade of research in Scotland

The University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Robotics has honed Valkyrie’s capabilities over the last 10 years.

NASA robot completes 10-year mission

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...

Key discovery by the Curiosity rover on Mars

Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.
autoevolution

MARS Software to Govern Autonomous Robot Workforce That'll Build Space Infrastructure

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being ...
AOL

Elon Musk on Mars, robots and how AI will be ‘smarter than humans this year’

Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World Economic forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. They spoke about everything from ...
Ars Technica

In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars

give the Mars robot projects an Apollo-scale budget (or even a substantial fraction thereof) and I ‘ll bet it would be astonishing what they could accomplish. The mission advantages of not having to ...