Autonomous mobile robots for logistics and facility operations
USA
TIER 08
Robotics
Autonomous robots and rovers for exploration & construction.
Directory
COMPANIES
Apollo humanoid robot designed for industrial and off-Earth labor
USA
Active debris removal and in-orbit satellite servicing
Japan
Legged robots adaptable for uneven planetary terrain
USA
Debris capture robots; ESA ClearSpace-1 prime contractor
Switzerland
General-purpose in-space and planetary surface robot arms
Japan
Space robotics heritage; Canadarm, SSRMS, lunar rover development
Canada
Canadarm3 robotics; satellite servicing and in-orbit assembly
USA/Canada
Robotic arms for planetary rovers; Mars Perseverance arm supplier
USA
Exoskeleton and teleoperated systems for EVA and construction
USA
RESEARCHERS
DLR
Compliant robot arms and space manipulation systems
Carnegie Mellon University
Soft robotics for unstructured planetary terrain
Carnegie Mellon University
Snake robots for planetary and confined-space exploration
NASA JPL / Caltech
Planetary rover autonomy and robotic systems architecture
Tohoku University
Space robotics, lunar/planetary rover systems
Stanford University
Autonomous systems, planetary robotics, motion planning
Politecnico di Milano
Space debris removal and autonomous orbital robotics
ETH Zürich
Autonomous mobile robots and planetary surface navigation
Univ. of Edinburgh
Whole-body control and adaptive space manipulation
Univ. of Arizona
Tier-scalable robotic exploration architectures
Articles and white papers tagged to this tier are on the blog. Visit the Blog →