This image shows NASA’s Robonaut 2 with newly developed climbing legs, designed to give the robot mobility in zero gravity. Image released Nov. 13, 2013. We Are the Robots ...

NASA's newest project – a human-like robot called the Robonaut 2 or R2 – is alive and slated to go on a mission later this year. The Robonaut 2 weighs about 300 pounds, runs on a battery and ...

Robonaut 2 is a humanoid robot designed by NASA scientists, the first of its kind in space. It's currently only a torso with a head and arms -- no legs, although that's in the works.

Robonaut 2, delivered to the International Space Station back in February, is part experiment and part butler—a research project aimed to find out the viability of a robotic helper in space.

NASA has released new images and video of the leg modifications to the Robonaut 2 robot currently working aboard the International Space Station (ISS). R2 will receive its new limbs early next year.

Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs. For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the experimental robot ...

NASA's humanoid robot astronaut is getting its space legs. The space agency is building lower limbs for Robonaut 2 , a robot designed to eventually help astronauts by taking over some of their ...

Will Robonaut 2 usher in a new age of man-machine space exploration? No. Sorry to kill your buzz, NASA and GM, but your jointly developed humanoid robot, the Robonaut 2, is way over hyped. The 300 ...

Robonaut 2 is prepared for launch (Image: NASA) View gallery - 6 images Robonaut 2 will become the first humanoid robot to head into space next month when the space shuttle Discovery blasts-off.

Robonaut 2 was chosen as the NASA Government Invention of the Year for 2014. Astronauts are testing to see if Robonaut 2 could be used to perform medical tasks in space, guided by doctors on the ...

Robonaut 2, NASA's humanoid robot currently inhabiting the International Space Station, hasn't done much exciting work up there since its arrival three years ago. But according to officials, the ...

Robonaut 2 will be aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station as part of the STS-133 ... NASA . Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's robot helper for space station astronauts.