Tag: JAXA

It's no secret that the Japanese love their robots. But the country's space agency, JAXA, is hoping that other nations will enjoy its android creations, too. The country of cutting-edge 'bots is planning to send a humanoid robot to the ISS, where it will monitor the health and stress levels of astronauts, and report back via Twitter. ...

Japan apparently didn't get the memo that the whole Space Race is so last century, so it's going ahead with a project that will confirm just about every hard sci-fi stereotype about Japanese innovation: they're going to put massive, intelligent humanoid robots on the moon. The Japanese space agency JAXA is moving forward with the $2.2 billon project that aims to get the robots to the lunar ...

It's been almost two years since we first told you about the Japanese probe KAGUYA, which is currently orbiting the moon. Fortunately for us, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was prescient enough to equip KAGUYA with a pair of HD cameras that have managed to collect some stunning footage. Until now, JAXA has only posted low-res versions of its videos and high-def-quality still ...