Imagine a day when an explorer on Mars suffers a medical emergency, and the nearest surgeon is 35 million miles away. Returning to Earth for treatment would take months, so preparations are being made ...

The Pittsburgh robotics startup will develop modular hardware components designed to operate in the harsh vacuum of space.

At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond. People love ...