China's Lunar Ambitions: Building a Moon Base with Robots and Bricks
TL;DR
China plans to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years, with the work set to kick off in five years. A team is designing a robot named "Chinese Super Masons" to make bricks out of lunar soil. The robot will be used to build infrastructure on the moon, which is needed for long-term lunar explorations.
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- China wants to start work on a moon base made out of lunar soil bricks Daily Mail
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