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History of Honeybee Robotics
Located in West Midtown Manhattan, Honeybee Robotics creates robots, flight subsystems, automated drills and other machines destined for work on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Founded in 1983 as a systems integrator using off-the-shelf robots, the company quickly gained a reputation for its innovative design skills and creative problem solving. Honeybee received its first NASA contract in 1986 and has subsequently worked on more than 90 others in addition to completing projects for the Department of Defense and companies such as Coca Cola, Con Edison, 3M, Nike, and IBM. Honeybee is a privately held company that is headquartered in New York City.
Honeybee Chairman, Stephen Gorevan, was named Co-Investigator for the Athena Science Payload on NASA's 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He was stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, along with five other Honeybee engineers, to operate the Rock Abrasion Tool for the length of the mission.
Honeybee Robotics is a NASA-approved provider of space flight hardware.