Chinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and have tested the device in the dunes of the vast Taklamakan Desert – an area the size of Germany – in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. In Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction no...
Source: [SCMP](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3370824/chinas-dune-sand-crawler-could-turn-whole-taklamakan-desert-iron-mine?utm_source=rss_feed)