Meet RoboSimian, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the creators of the Mars rover Curiosity. Apes were the inspiration behind their design, which enables the robot to do pull-ups and ...

I’m one of a team of more than 500 travelers exploring Mars from California with the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another planet. As I write, Curiosity is pounding a hole into a rock in ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars. As shown in the imagery below, the NASA robot investigated dried-up lake beds and captured views of ...

But surely the team is making constant tweaks to its robot in preparation for the World Championships, right? Wrong. Curiosity is currently sealed in a plastic bag with severe restrictions on who ...

The extraordinary landing of a revolutionary rover named Curiosity—which successfully ... in the form of the most sophisticated robot ever to rove the Mars surface. Will NASA's bold mission ...

The rough terrain of Mars is breaking the wheels of NASA's Curiosity rover. In response, NASA is trying to reinvent the wheel for space exploration. Metals that can "remember" their form, called ...