To combat this difficulty, other engineers have turned to alternative propulsion methods, and a team of researchers in the EU have done just that for their work on an autonomous mining robot.

A robot works in a simulated environment for space mining at a lab of China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Provided to China Daily The prospect of space mining ...

A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future. Unlike ...