NEWS
- 2026.01
Moonbot will appear at the Sendai City Science Museum event,“Connect with Space! Sendai Space Mission 2026.”
The event will feature workshops including a lecture by Professor Kazuya Yoshida, rover operation experiences, and commemorative photo sessions. For details, please visit the Miyagi Television website.- 2026.01
NHK's program ‘Frontier’ will feature content about Moonbot.For details, please see the NHK program introduction page ‘Frontier: Japan's Cutting-Edge Lunar Robot Technology’.
- 2025.10
- 2025.9.8
Experiments involving the lunar robot “Moonbot,” developed by our laboratory, were conducted at the European Space Agency (ESA)/German Aerospace Center (DLR), and footage of these experiments has been released.
▹ "🇩🇪 🇯🇵 DLR x Tohoku University – a match made in space"
▹ "How does the LUNA hall support field research in space robotics?"
- 2025.8.1
- The nickname for the modular AI robot exhibition model that will lead the future of lunar exploration has been decided: “TSUKIKAKE”!
- 2025.6.30
- Moonshot Yoshida Project Osaka/Kansai Expo2025 Special Exhibition page is now open!
- 2025.4.10
"Transformable “Combined Robot” Lunar Exploration Robot Developed by Tohoku University to be Exhibited at Kansai EXPO" was broadcast on Tohoku Broadcasting System's news program NSTA Miyagi.
(available on TBS NEWS DIG).- 2025.3.12
- 「Transformable AI Robot to Autonomously Perform Missions on the Moon Prototype Unveiled.」 Modular AI Robot (MoonBot) press release at JAXA Sagamihara Campus, Space Exploration Test Building and Space Exploration Field.
- 2025.3.7
- A public symposium on Moonshot Goal 3 was held at Miraikan.
(Watch the Lecture) - 2025.3
- We have created two videos introducing the Yoshida Project. Please take a look!
「Self-Evolving AI Robot System for Lunar Exploration and Human Outpost Construction」
「Moonshot 2050 Yoshida Project」 - 2024.08
- Sendai Broadcasting System “LIVE NEWS IT!” broadcasted about Yoshida Project!
- 2024.05
- At the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024) in Yokohama, Japan, we presented a concept video of our modular AI robot at the Moonshot Target 3 exhibit booth.
- 2024.09.02
- [MICHINOOK Community Mail Magazine vol.1] Prof. Kazuya Yoshida's interview was featured in “Tohoku University ‘Eclectic’ Laboratory #1”!
- 2022.08
- The project was adopted by the Cabinet Office's Moonshot R&D Project Goal 3: “By 2050, robots will be able to learn and act by themselves and coexist with humans through the co-evolution of AI and robots.