{"id":476664,"date":"2026-05-09T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:35:12","slug":"meet-chinas-moon-porter-for-change-8-mission-a-4-wheeled-robot-with-2-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476664\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet China\u2019s moon porter for Chang\u2019e-8 mission: a 4-wheeled robot with 2 arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is sending a new kind of explorer to the moon \u2013 with a humanoid upper body and four wheels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 100kg (220lbs) robot will transport, deploy and install instruments and sensors at their designated lunar locations after the Chang\u2019e-8 probe lands. It is also tasked with collecting samples of the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have heard that <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3297198\/chinas-change-7-mission-send-flying-robot-moons-south-pole-look-water?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chang\u2019e-7<\/a> is probably going to see the first humanoid robot landing on the [moon\u2019s] south pole. But our robot will go to a different part of the south pole \u2013 it is a very large area and we are curious about all of it,\u201d HKUST professor Gao Yang said on April 29.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis will be a novel demonstration of humanoid robotics on the moon and by China. We are very proud of this design,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gao directs the Hong Kong Space Robotics and Energy Centre which developed the robot in collaboration with 30 universities and space organisations in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is sending a new kind of explorer to the moon \u2013 with a humanoid upper body and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[291,208802,381,111663,44279,18,208804,4202,10533,19,44275,17,208803,10626,2214,133,62925,451,8912,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-476664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-change-8","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-china-aerospace-science-and-technology-corporation","12":"tag-china-national-space-administration","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-gao-yang","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-international-lunar-research-station","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-leibnitz-beta-plateau","21":"tag-moon","22":"tag-pakistan","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-south-pole","25":"tag-space","26":"tag-space-debris","27":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116545829258739495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}