When the space shuttle Discovery blasts off later today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute sophomore Nathaniel Quillin can take pride in the fact that he was responsible for a piece of the mission. The ...

With the robotic components seemingly intact after the shaking and rattling of the space shuttle Endeavour‘s launch this week, astronauts are preparing to start assembling the giant two-armed machine ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) _ Forced to take a detour because of rain in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour and its international crew of seven landed in the Mojave Desert on Tuesday after ...

Bright and early on a Tuesday morning, this reporter started her day being driven around by a robot. Almost exactly two years after it was announced, the Philadelphia Navy Yard’s autonomous shuttle ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Walt Disney World in Florida appears poised to launch the highest-profile commercial deployment of driverless passenger vehicles to date, testing a fleet of driverless shuttles that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts got power flowing to the International Space Station's new robot Friday night, overcoming a problem that had threatened to disrupt shuttle Endeavour's construction ...