China trains robot dogs for lunar missions

***The Telegraph reports:***

Researchers in [China](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/china) are training robotic dogs for future space exploration with the goal of putting humans on the moon.

Scientists at Peking University announced over the weekend that they had tested two robotic dogs designed specifically to collect data from below the moon’s surface, which has been identified as a possible future base for humans.

According to a post on social media, the dogs were taken to a lava cave near Jingbo Lake in China’s northern Heilongjiang province.

The cave is “cold and dark” and “strikingly similar to the underground space of the moon”, according to the university.

**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/03/china-trains-robot-dogs-for-lunar-missions-space-moon-mars/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/03/china-trains-robot-dogs-for-lunar-missions-space-moon-mars/)

Looks like flag planting. No “For all mankind?”

Lots of uses for dogs.
Especially when you have to wok the dog…