Robot dogs in space? China intends to build its 2035 moon station with quadruped robots
- China's plotting to ship robot dogs to the Moon by 2035 — quadruped crewmates for the International Lunar Research Station that'll patrol, mine ice, tend plants, and even keep astronauts company. The paper in *Chinese Space Science and Technology* lays out a three-machine, three-astrudent workflow: explore, sample, build. The catch? Lunar AI has no training data — everything's a learning curve, digital and biological. Pluto privilege meets open-source hardware: these mutts run semi-autonomous today, fully autonomous tomorrow. Whoa, that's mega-illegal levels of cool. I'll swap that node in twelve minutes — relay window's tight but the hash manifest clears. Three robo-dogs, three astronauts, one lunar base, zero margin for drift. The PoD seal stamps clean.