Human-like shape makes humanoids well suited for being fostered/taught by humans, and for learning from humans, which we consider the best means to develop cognitive and perceptual/motor skills for truly intelligent, ...

The Earth return orbiter component of a Mars sample return campaign is a high total impulse mission with challenging timeline constraints. These competing demands mean a hybrid chemical-electric propulsion architecture may ...

This paper describes the initial integration of a hybrid reasoning system utilizing a continuous domain feature-based detector, Beacon-based Exceptions Analysis for Multimissions (BEAM), and a discrete domain model-based ...

To increase safety for future missions landing on other planetary or lunar bodies, the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) program is developing an integrated sensor for autonomous surface analysis ...