A half-tonne robot is about to turn a patch of the Moon into a billboard.
Astrolab, a California rover maker, has built its first lunar vehicle to do two very different jobs. One is commercial: a projector designed to cast partners' logos onto the surface near the Moon's south pole. The other is computational: carrying a compact artificial intelligence computer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), among the most powerful machines ever bound for the lunar surface.