NASA is teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. With little fanfare, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers — including engineers, planetary scientists, and cognitive scientists — let ...

A shape-shifting robot swarm could be key to helping astronauts more easily move things across the lunar surface during future missions.

Spirit, a four-legged robot that resembles a dog, is helping a team of university researchers and NASA get back to the moon, and eventually, Mars.