Space

Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data.

A mechanical workman will appear at the International Space Station in February to take over some of the spacewalking duties now performed by astronauts.

Space 'spiders', small robots able to crawl along mesh webbing, will be tested during a joint mission with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, the European Space Agency and the Vienna University of Technology. The Furoshiki satellite is scheduled to launch on January 18, 2006.

Scientists will try to chart one of the world's deepest oceanic sinkholes this week by deploying a robotic submarine in a mission that if successful, could one day be helpful in exploring other planets.

SEATTLE, WA, United States (UPI) -- A newly developed surgical robot called Raven will spend 12 days next month submerged in a simulated U.S. spaceship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The robot -- developed by the University of Washington -- will be studied inside a 400-square-foot underwater habitat that`s used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for space simulations and training.

Newswise — A robotic probe designed to draw an underwater three-dimensional map showing the biological and geochemical composition of an ice-bound Antarctica lake may prove to be the ideal tool to search for life on other planets or moons where ice is known to exist.

Satnews Daily - Orbital Express, an in-space U.S.

ROBOT geologists similar to NASA's next automated Mars rover may one day be searching for minerals in the red dust of the outback, says a CSIRO scientist.

The branch of the U.S. military that created the internet has launched into orbit a pair of prototype robots designed to repair and service satellites in space.

The Orbital Express system was launched on an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 p.m. ET Thursday.