Zero Robotics is an educational outreach program originally founded by Prof. David Miller and now led by Prof. Danielle Wood, the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, and the Innovation Learning Center. The program provides the opportunity for middle school and high school students to write programming for the NASA Astrobee robots on the International Space Station. Student teams develop strategies based on a game and compete to win the highest score with their algorithms for Astrobee. The games teach students about concepts related to space such as the risk of space debris.

During 2022 to 2024, Zero Robotics was offered to Middle School students across the United States. For 2025, Zero Robotics is hosting the first High School programming competition with the NASA Astrobee robots. Students teams worked throughout the month of January to write and test code using an online simulation provided by MIT. On February 20, the final competition to score the performance of each student team will take place on the International Space Station with Astronaut Don Pettit, a long time advocate of space education.

This project is supported by many sponsors, including the Aerospace Corporation, the ISS National Laboratory, NASA, and others. MIT-funded interns via the UROP program have also helped provide technical support to the national players.