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| | China Works Out Robot Series For Lunar Exploration |
 | | The robot series are an array of independently-controlled, concurrent and reconfigurable secondary robots, each consisting ofan arm for carrying objects, collecting samples, surveying and mapping, and a triangular wheel for independent walking and skipping obstacles, said a spokesman for the Automation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). |
 | | The institute, based in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, is the independent developer of the robots which have passed the appraisal test by the Chinese government. |
 | | These secondary robots are like wheels of the moon rover, whichis also made up of a primary robot, the bodywork of the vehicle, said the CAS spokesman who declined to be named. |
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