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Jinchang Xu is a pioneering roboticist whose research lies at the intersection of bio-inspired engineering and extraterrestrial exploration. His most impactful work centers on developing novel robotic systems for extreme environments—from the deep sea to the lunar surface. Xu’s landmark contribution is the design and implementation of the robotic drill for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission, a historic achievement that successfully penetrated 1 meter into the lunar regolith and retrieved 259.72 grams of samples (20 citations). This work, alongside his development of real-time prediction models for drilling forces and temperature inside lunar regolith using recurrent neural networks and attention-based Bi-LSTM networks (21 combined citations), has revolutionized autonomous drilling in planetary exploration. Xu has also advanced bio-inspired robotics, creating a miniature jellyfish-inspired robot for underwater investigation (22 citations), and designed multi-rod, wireline-coring drill tools for seafloor sediment sampling. His recent work on thermal-vacuum regolith simulators for drilling tests in lunar polar regions (4 citations) further underscores his commitment to enabling future lunar base construction. With over 70 total citations, Xu’s contributions are foundational to the next generation of autonomous sampling robots for planetary and deep-sea missions.