Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

Orbit Robotics, an academic spinout from ETH Zurich, built Helios around a single premise: don't design for a gravity environment if you're going to work in microgravity. The result is a four-armed ...

Zurich’s Orbit Robotics built a four-armed space robot called Helios. It targets the 35% of crew time spent on maintenance at $140K/hour. Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a ...

An emerging class of startups is pushing the boundaries of what machines can do in the physical world — retrofitting bulldozers to dig on their own, launching drones that beat police cars to 911 calls ...