{"id":66064,"date":"2025-09-15T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:19:15","slug":"japanese-ai-robot-swarms-to-scout-sites-for-underground-moon-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66064\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese AI robot swarms to scout sites for underground moon bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/science\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Tiny devices being developed to hunt for lava tubes below lunar surface<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20250915N Lunar 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Researchers envision dozens of these robots exploring lunar caves to aid in the work of building an underground city on the moon. (Photo by Mana Kuroda)<\/p>\n<p>MANA KURODA<\/p>\n<p>September 16, 2025 03:54 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese researchers aim\u00a0to put artificial intelligence-powered robots, each small enough to be held in one hand, on the lunar surface to test new technology for helping humans live on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science Tiny devices being developed to hunt for lava tubes below lunar surface Researchers envision dozens of these&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[291,42272,18,19,17,21474,10626,15927,133,46381,46382,46380,46383],"class_list":{"0":"post-66064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-bases","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-japanese","14":"tag-moon","15":"tag-robot","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-scout","18":"tag-sites","19":"tag-swarms","20":"tag-underground"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66064","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=66064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}