As early as 1993, for instance, DLR scientists used remote control to operate the ROTEX robot arm in the Space Shuttle and to catch a floating cube. This was the very first deployment of ground-based ...

Instead, robotics officer Sarmad Aziz guided the station's Canadarm 2 through the tricky task - which occurred at 6:20a.m. EDT (1020 GMT) - remotely from ISS mission control at Johnson Space ...

This week, the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) announced the first-ever demonstration of collaborative tele-operations to control robots by operators on the International Space ...

In the future, astronauts might remotely control rovers on the moon, or even on Mars, from nearby orbiting stations.To see how well this might work, astronauts on the International Space Station ...

In this mode, previously programmed motion sequences transmitted to the International Space Station ISS were is processed independently by the robot arm. Now the tests in the so-called telepresence ...

In yesterday’s roundup of the good, bad and ugly in new remote controls, we included one photo of a vintage remote: the Zenith Space Command. We identified it as the first TV remote, gave some ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, monitoring the approach from the station's Zvezda module, took over by remote control at the direction of Russian flight controllers and deftly guided ...

Space surgery experiment could provide pathway for medical care in Earth's most remote regions The successful use of MIRA on the ISS would show effective range over 250 miles By Peter Aitken Fox News ...