Honeybee Robotics, a subsidiary of Blue Origin, is an American company specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced robotic systems and components for space exploration. They serve as a key technology provider for space agencies like NASA and JAXA, creating robotic drills, samplers, and other electromechanical systems for planetary missions. Their products include robotic arms, soil acquisition devices, and sample manipulation systems used on Mars rovers and lunar landers.
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The CLPS contract includes an Australian Space Agency lunar rover and technologies from Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics.
Honeybee Robotics develops robotic systems, rovers, and mechanisms for missions to the Moon, Mars, and other planetary bodies.
Honeybee Robotics may provide sampling, sensing, robotics, and autonomy capabilities to support surface exploration.
Honeybee Robotics is a Blue Origin company.
The IM-5 lander will carry Honeybee Robotics’ next-generation lunar rover.
On January 13, 2026, Blue Origin announced the delivery of the Sample Delivery Carousel, developed by Honeybee Robotics Exploration Systems, to NASA Goddard.
Honeybee Robotics Exploration Systems has shipped the Sample Delivery Carousel to NASA Goddard.
The third Firefly lander will deploy Honeybee Robotics' first planetary rover on one of the two Gruithuisen Domes on the Moon's nearside.
Firefly Aerospace selected Honeybee Robotics to provide the rover for Firefly’s third CLPS mission.
Honeybee Robotics operated instruments on Blue Ghost Mission 1.
Since March 3, 2024, Blue Ghost intermittently operated the LISTER drill, which was developed by Honeybee Robotics and Texas Tech University and flight-funded by NASA.
The Honeybee-Robotics-developed PRIME-1 drill on Athena demonstrated its full range of motion but could not drill because Athena was lying sideways.
Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics and Astrobotic each developed one of the three LVSAT designs funded by NASA in 2022.
Honeybee Robotics Ltd. in Altadena, California developed a tool for evaluating the geophysical properties of soil on near-Earth asteroids that flew on NS-23.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
Honeybee Robotics is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Honeybee Robotics of Altadena, California was acquired by Blue Origin earlier in 2022.
Honeybee Robotics of Brooklyn, New York received a $7,000,000 award for vertical solar array development.
Honeybee Robotics of Brooklyn, New York received a $7,000,000 award to develop a vertical solar array prototype.