China intends to integrate these new systems into its future space station, that they intend to complete in 2035. Robot dog will even guard the lunar research station. Robot dogs could provide welcome support. Even in our efforts to colonize the moon, robot dogs could “prepare the Moon for long-term human settlement” by “harvesting water ice and mining minerals…and building with local materials,” according to SCMP. And robot dogs just might – with their lit-up noses in the air – be standing next to their human counterpart.