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NASA is a robotics company founded 1958, based in United States, developing 8 robots primarily in the Research category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
NASA has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 deployment on record, all maker-verified.
Shipped
1named customer · 1 tied to a specific robot
1 maker-verified · on 1 robot
- NASA / International Space Station· Astrobee Bumblenasa.gov ↗
Exploring space, advancing aeronautics, and robotics for spaceflight
NASA develops space robotics systems for astronaut assistance and research, including Robonaut, Robo-Glove, and the Astrobee free-flying robot system used aboard the ISS. Its robotics work serves space operations and technology transfer rather than commercial buyers, with deployments at NASA centers and in low-Earth orbit.
Active products
8
RoboIndex
55.37
RoboScore 55.37 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- United States
- Founded
- 1958 · 68 yrs
- Website
- www.nasa.gov
RoboScore
55.37 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #23 of 51·Research·best robot 39.78 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 39.78
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Astrobee Bumble became the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space.
NASA and General Motors jointly developed the Robo-Glove as a human grasp assist device.
Press coverage
- Astrobee (robot)
Wikipedia
- Robotic glove
Federal Laboratory Consortium
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by NASA
8 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Astrobee Bumble | Research | — | 2019 | 48.1 |
| 2 | Valkyrie | Humanoid | Height 1.80 m·Weight 136 kg | 2013 | 40.6 | |
| 3 |  | Robo-Glove | Research | Runtime 8 hr | 2018 | 40.0 |
| 4 |  | X1 | Research | Runtime 8 hr | 2020 | 39.8 |
| 5 |  | Astrobee Honey | Research | — | 2019 | 39.1 |
| 6 |  | Astrobee Queen | Research | — | 2019 | 39.1 |
| 7 |  | Astrobee | Research | — | 2019 | 39.0 |
| 8 |  | Robonaut | Humanoid | Payload 9.1 kg | 2011 | 38.4 |
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