{"id":3928785,"date":"2026-11-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/robot-successfully-builds-space-structure-in-first-autonomous-construction-demo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:00:39","slug":"robot-successfully-builds-space-structure-in-first-autonomous-construction-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/robot-successfully-builds-space-structure-in-first-autonomous-construction-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot successfully builds space structure in first autonomous construction demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space\u2014without the help of astronauts\u2014for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA&#8217;s Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an autonomous manipulator that picks up struts and joints held in nearby dispensers to repeatedly assemble identical sections, or bays, of a perimeter truss.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-robot-successfully-space-autonomous-demo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space\u2014without the help of astronauts\u2014for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA&#8217;s Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an autonomous manipulator that picks up struts and joints [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}