LEMUR can climb walls with special gripping feet, and is only one of a suite of climbing NASA robots. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has built many adventurous robots that can fly in space, land on alien ...

Elon Musk's lemur tweet has fueled speculation about SpaceX. On Wednesday night Elon Musk posted a rather cryptic tweet, declaring, “Tomorrow brings a lemur,” which has fueled a huge amount of ...

NASA is no stranger to building robots, having created ones that are currently exploring Mars, traveling to the International Space Station and ones that look like inflatable "aliens." But now the ...

At the rate things are going in space exploration, it’s more than obvious that humanity will soon need robots that can do more than just trek on wheels on alien worlds. We might just have to scale ...

RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer ...

While rovers like Curiosity are doing a bang-up job exploring extraterrestrial terrain, they don't have the capability to scale cliffs and other hard-to-reach places. That's a job best left to ...

The crawling robot, Lemur, was built to help astronauts complete small jobs in space. “Lemur could be an astronauts pet monkey,” says JPL engineer Brett Kennedy who designed the 6-limbed robot. Lemur ...

Captive lemurs receive an abundance of food year-round, so the need to hibernate as a way to store energy when resources are scarce is not needed. Frank Vassen Via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 In ...

Seen climbing a cliff in Death Valley, the LEMUR claw hands could inflience military climbing robot design. (Kelsey Atherton / Screenshot from YouTube) The robot has fingers. It’s hard to say what the ...

Space hibernation can only be seen in sci-fi movies and fictional games and media. But, this technology can really be a useful innovation in space travels and even other activities on Earth. In this ...

Mountains and cliffs are among the most tantalizing spaces on Mars or any other rocky planet. The problem? Martian rovers like Curiosity and the upcoming Mars 2020 rover are limited by how much ...