India developing construction robot for moon

Tom Jackson
Jan 15, 2010

All those years of packing their kids off to U.S. engineering schools is starting to pay off.

Scientists in India plan to send a robot named Roony to the moon  in 2012 to build a small cabin there. Good for them. I just hope they don’t finance it with a U.S. mortgage.

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