NASA’s humanoid robot looks like the offspring of a three-way between Daft Punk, C-3PO and a football player, and it goes by the name of R2 – Robonaut 2 if you’d like to get formal.

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. NASA and General Motors came together to ...

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 ...

Click here to see pictures of Robonaut 2 > 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 ...

Look out, astronauts – your companion robot on the International Space Station is now mobile! NASA's Robonaut 2 has received a set of legs that will help it move around the station, and will ...

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 ...

Before Robonaut can do anything on the space station, NASA engineers must first calibrate and adapt the robot's movements to the zero-gravity environment. On Earth, Robonaut 2's movements were ...

Not content to simply stand in one place, NASA's mechanical astronaut has found not one, but two new bodies that will allow it to move across land and space. Robonaut B, a robot built with ...

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space, on Thursday (Oct. 24). The two-armed, two-legged robotic testbed ...

but totally reasonable for the robot," Ambrose told ABC News. But don't expect Robonaut to be walking on the moon anytime soon. NASA moves slowly with new technology. Robonaut is a 50-year project ...

A humanoid robot aboard the International Space Station is inspiring technology that could be useful to both astronauts and people on Earth. NASA's Robonaut 2, which arrived at the orbiting lab in ...

NASA will launch legs for Robonaut on the next SpaceX mission ... Helping the Astronauts Rob Ambrose, who heads the robotics program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said a mobile Robonaut ...