The great explorers Lewis and Clark knew the importance of team expeditions. Now, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are developing a small scout robot called the ...

Future NASA robots exploring Mars and other alien worlds may be even more productive, thanks to a pocketful of tagalong minirovers. NASA engineers are developing the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a flexible robot, inspired by origami, that can flatten itself to crawl into small spaces, scale steep inclines and withstand long falls.

NASA is developing a robot that could go where no robot has gone before: over and under difficult terrain on Mars or another planet. The PUFFER — Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot — could traverse ...

PUFFER is tested in the field, at Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus The robot is good at getting over or under obstacles, so it could be used to get past rough terrain on other planets. Dylan Taylor NASA is ...

Exploring other planets in our solar system is obviously a daunting and dangerous task that will require only the bravest souls we can muster here on Earth. But first, before we dispatch any real-life ...