The Robot Report’s top trends of 2024 highlight some of the industry’s biggest highs and lows from the past year.
RBR50 Spotlight: MOXIE completes historic oxygen-making mission on Mars
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, generated oxygen aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover.
Robots raise the bar for Artemis Program’s PPE solar array simulation frame
Learn how a mobile-robot gantry system met the PPE solar array simulation frame’s structural and mobility requirements.
HEBI developing modular robotic building blocks for NASA
New tech enables developers to create robots terrestrially with HEBI building blocks and transfer that work to space-rated HEBI hardware.
NASA spinoff Seatrec offers a new power source for underwater robots
Seatrec says its technology can allow robots to work in the open ocean indefinitely and without any intervention.
CMU, NASA JPL collaborate to make EELS snake robot to explore distant oceans
NASA scientists hope to use EELS to search for signs of life in the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s Enceladus moon.
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus makes first U.S. lunar landing in 50 years
NASA and commercial partner Intuitive Machines successfully landed the Odysseus lander on the surface of the moon today.
GITAI dual-armed robot arrives at the ISS, to conduct multiple operations
GITAI USA’s S2 robotic system is the company’s second robot to do work on the International Space Station.
After 72 flights, NASA says goodbye to Ingenuity helicopter
NASA received images of Ingenuity’s Jan. 18 flight this week that showed one or more of its rotor blades had been damaged during landing.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is back in flight after unscheduled landing
Ingenuity’s most recent flight was a 25-second hop to give the Ingenuity team some insight on why the helicopter’s 53rd flight was cut short.
Why NASA is testing its Valkyrie humanoid in Australia
Learn how NASA is putting Valkyrie’s skills to the test as part of a reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
Perseverance gets back in contact with Ingenuity
Ingenuity’s flight took place on April 26, but mission controllers lost contact when the helicopter descended toward the Martian surface.
Blue Origin earns NASA lunar development contract
Under the contract, Blue Origin will develop a human landing system for NASA’s Artemis V mission to the Moon.
Motiv Space Systems, NASA create robotic arm that works in frigid temperatures
NASA has been working with Motiv Space Systems to develop a robotic arm capable of operating in some of the coldest areas of the Moon.
Perseverance collects its first dirt sample on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Rover recently collected its first two samples of regolith, broken-up rock and dust, on Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has been making oxygen on Mars
NASA released the results of the Perseverance Rover’s first seven oxygen generation runs on Mars using MOXIE.
Next-gen Ingenuity Helicopters will have robotic arms
NASA is swapping out its Sample Fetch Rover for two helicopters, similar to Ingenuity, to serve as backups to the Perseverance Rover.
NASA released first science images from James Webb Space Telescope
We take a look at some of the details in the first set of science images to be released by the JWST science team.
Getting Mars samples back to Earth: Perseverance searching for landing sites
NASA has been scouting out an area on Mars from spacecrafts in orbit. This is the first time the team is getting an up close look thanks to Perseverance.
NASA’s InSight Lander nearing end of journey on Mars
NASA is preparing for the day it’ll turn off the InSight Lander’s instruments due to the dust slowly covering the robot’s solar panels.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spots Perseverance debris
Perseverance’s 70.5 foot wide parachute helped the rover land on Mars after making its way through the Martian atmosphere.
Watch: Perseverance’s view of a solar eclipse on Mars
According to NASA, it’s the most zoomed-in and highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken on the Martian surface.