DEFINITION:

Although in a wide sense any unmanned satellite could be considered as a robot space robotics, as a particular application of general robotics, considers two main scenarios: robotics under microgravity conditions for uses inside space stations and some tasks as orbital servicing and planetary robotics where the application field is the development of autonomous vehicles to move close to the surface of another planets or celestial bodies in general.

(Source: PAE own elaboration and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s web page: http://www.ieee-ras.org/space-robotics )