NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology has developed a snake-like robot with a pretty unique mission in mind: searching for life on one of Saturn’s moons.

EELS navigates around obstacles during a test in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Underwater robots face many challenges before they can truly master the deep, such as stability in choppy currents. A new paper published in the journal npj Robotics provides a comprehensive update of ...

The latest triumph in ocean technology comes from a small, rugged machine that slipped beneath Antarctic ice into a part of the planet no human has ever seen, gathered a torrent of data, and then did ...

Danish scientists have developed an origami snake robot that could one day search for survivors at disaster sites, or even explore other planets. The device moves via rectilinear locomotion, just like ...

A Cedarville University senior has built an underwater robot, one he “knew that he wanted to complete (because it) had never been done successfully.” Jared Ritzo, from Virginia Beach, Va., built the ...