Six-legged robot takes pioneering step in space mining
China DailyBy ZHAO LEI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-03-18 23:33 A robot works in a simulated environment for space mining at a lab of China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Provided to China Daily The prospect of space mining — extracting minerals from the moon, Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies — has long captured the imagination and fed science fiction circles. A group of researchers at China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, headed by Professor Liu Xinhua from the university's School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, have been working on a six-legged crawling robot since 2024. According to China University of Mining and Technology, the robot's body is made of three advanced alloys: aluminum-based silicon carbide composites, titanium alloys and nickel-titanium shape memory alloys.
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