China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the lunar surface.

Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on the Moon possible. Instead of astronauts hauling regolith and assembling ...

Starbase, a space launch facility located at the southern tip of Texas, U.S. The super-heavy Starship launch vehicle, carrying Interlune’s lunar regolith excavation equipment ‘Harvester,’ roars into ...

The EU's Commissioner for Space and Defense, warns of the bloc losing influence in space as it expresses ambition to mine the moon and asteroids for resources. Faltering energy security and unstable ...

The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a non-descript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a ...