NASA wants to build a polar outpost on the Moon starting in 2020, and one of the most promising ways to get that done is by using robo-Tonka trucks supplied by Astrobotic Technology and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. The lunar robo-dozers would be charged with fleshing out a landing pad and launch site for rockets and other spacecraft. [See PDF Here]The results of the work on the robo-Tonka trucks and robo-dozers were presented last Friday in Washington, D.C., at a NASA Lunar Surface Systems conference co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its Space Enterprise Council.
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