The next machine to explore alien worlds may slither rather than roll. NASA is currently testing a snake-like robot that its engineers hope will one day be deployed into the oceans of Saturn’s moon ...

A snake is set to slither its way to Saturn's moon! In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University's Robotic Institute, a team of roboticists at the California Institute of Technology's Jet ...

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows ...

Mini robots that can roll, fly, float and swim, then morph into a single machine? Together they form Shapeshifter, a developing concept for a transformational vehicle to explore treacherous, distant ...

NASA’s newest mission will either land a quadcopter-like spacecraft on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan or collect a sample from the nucleus of a comet. The two proposals were selected from a group ...

NASA has given the green light to the Dragonfly mission, a project to send a multi-rotor flying vehicle to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in search of alien life. This mission is on track to make ...

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into the giant ringed planet in ...