The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in situ resource
utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-the-art …

Abstract China's Mars rover, Zhurong, touched down on Utopia Planitia in the northern
lowlands of Mars (109.925° E, 25.066° N) in May 2021, and has been conducting in situ …

Heavy-duty legged robots have played an important role in material transportation, planet
exploration, and other fields due to their unique advantages in complex and harsh terrain …

We present a self-supervised approach for learning to predict traversable paths for wheeled
mobile robots that require good traction to navigate. Our algorithm, termed WayFAST …

Place recognition is the fundamental module that can assist Simultaneous Localization and
Mapping (SLAM) in loop-closure detection and re-localization for long-term navigation. The …

Identifying the physical properties of the surrounding environment is essential for robotic
locomotion and navigation to deal with non-geometric hazards, such as slippery and …

The primary source of oxygen in space exploration is derived from water electrolysis. Herein,
we discovered a mild photochemical hydrogenation process that can convert CO 2 into …

On December 2, 2020, a 2-m class robotic drill onboard the Chinese Chang'E 5 lunar lander
successfully penetrated 1 m into the lunar regolith and collected 259.72 g of samples. This …

Amphibious bionic robots are a valuable tool in the field of marine engineering. In this paper,
a novel multi-mode amphibious bionic legged robot is proposed. The unique mechanism …

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is becoming a mainstream tool in planetary exploration,
and one of the few in-situ planetary geophysical methods. There are currently three missions …