<p>➀ A European research team, including scientists from DFKI, proposed a four-phase robotic mission concept in Science Robotics to explore lunar lava tubes using autonomous robots; </p><p>➁ The mission involves cooperative mapping, sensor deployment, abseiling a rover into caves, and 3D modeling, successfully tested on Lanzarote; </p><p>➂ The results highlight the feasibility of heterogeneous robot collaboration for future planetary exploration, developed under the EU-funded CoRob-X project.</p>