A Japanese toy company has developed a small robot weighing 250 grams to explore the moon.
The Japanese company “Tommy” has made a small robot to study the moon. The Japan Space Agency is set to send a spacecraft to explore the moon next year. To send with it, a small toy robot weighing 250 grams and measuring 8 cm in diameter has been manufactured by a Japanese toy company.
That little robot is named Sora-Q. Made of aluminum and plastic, the tiny robot is equipped with two cameras that can withstand temperatures ranging from minus 170 degrees Celsius to a maximum of 110 degrees Celsius. Scientists plan to send the images to Earth and study them.
Kenta Hashiba, an employee of Tommy and a developer of Sora-Q, said their experience and techniques in making baby toys helped create this robot. He also said that children would be happy to see a robot going into space if they were interested in space.
The Japanese space agency JAXA plans to send the robot to the lunar lander SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon).