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Chinese scientists plan to install an all-view surveillance system on the moon to protect human lunar bases from "suspicious targets." In the future, the lunar Skynet system will be equipped with artificial intelligence cameras to independently identify, locate, track and aim at suspicious targets for all-day monitoring, the researchers said.
The system, designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and Zhejiang University, experts say appropriate measures will be taken quickly if any anomalies are detected.
The success of China's Skynet system, the world's largest surveillance system, now has more than 600 million cameras on the moon, using surveillance cameras on the streets and alleys with facial recognition capabilities. The Future Lunar Skynet camera can operate in both visible and infrared light modes, providing multi-layered security for future international lunar research stations.
In the future, China may cooperate with Russia in the creation of a lunar research station with a diameter of about 68 km, equipped with a command center, power station, communications center and research facilities. The research team also designed the robot of the "Chinese Super Mason" to make bricks from lunar soil to provide sustainable materials for the construction of the lunar base.
Ding Lieyun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said a team of researchers was designing a robot called "China's Super Mason" to make bricks from lunar soil. Previously, a research team led by Academician Ding Lieyun had proposed an egg-shaped lunar base, which could be built using adobe bricks, and named it "Lunar Tank Ship", which could be made using 3D printers and laser equipment, and the lunar base could be used for astronauts to live in.
The robot responsible for making the "lunar adobe" will arrive on the moon with the Chang'e-8 spacecraft, which will be launched in 2028. It is said that China plans to collect the first lunar soil sample from the far side of the moon as early as 2025, and once the lunar research station is successfully built in the future, astronauts are expected to stay on the moon for a long time and carry out a series of scientific exploration missions.