OpenSpace Lab (China), led by Prof. Long Chen, focuses on Space AI, Space Robotics, and Space Resource Development, actively promoting research, exchange, and application in the field.
Space Robotics Foundation Models:
Space Resource Exploration and Exploitation:
- Mining beyond Earth with Space Robots: Exploration, Sampling, and Extraction, arXiv 2026. [Project]
- He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping, iSpaRo 2026. [Code] [Project]
- OS-Rover: An Open-Source Planetary Rover for Resource Prospecting with Drill-Assisted Sampling and Multimodal Teleoperation, iSpaRo 2026. [Code]
- Lunar Helium-3 Mining: System Architecture and Extraction-Separation Technologies, IJICS 2026
- Conference Activities: Organized the Special Session on "Robotics in Space Exploration" at IROS 2026.
- 重大问题发布: 课题组提议的“面向深空资源开发的自主采矿关键科学与技术问题研究”成功入选中国科协 2025 年“十大产业技术问题”.
- OpenSpace Lab welcomes collaborations. Please contact Dong Li at doongli@ieee.org.
