Honeybee Robotics designs, develops, and supplies automated mechanisms for industrial, defense, and aerospace applications. Our products include solar array drives and deployment devices, automated drills and sampling systems, spacecraft mechanisms, and custom electromechanical subsystems for spaceflight. We’ve completed over 90 projects for NASA, plus numerous others for clients as diverse as the Department of Defense and Con Edison.

Phoenix Icy Soil Acquisition Device (ISAD)

Show to the right is the Phoenix Scoop, our second mechanism operating on Mars. Honeybee designed, built and tested the ISAD in only 14 months, after the Mars Phoenix team determined that they needed a vast improvement on the method of gathering samples from the strongest icy soil targets anticipated at the landing site. ... read more