Beijing-based engineers design a wheeled semi-humanoid robot with a dexterous torso to build China‘s International Lunar Research Station by 2035. New York, N.Y. In a significant leap for its ambitious space program, China has unveiled plans for a novel semi-humanoid robot designed to tackle the grueling work of constructing a permanent research station on the moon. Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering detailed the machine in the Journal of Deep Space Exploration this past December, presenting...