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China tests a Dune-like iron-harvesting crawler robot in the Taklamakan Desert

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Device based on rare earth magnets traverses the sands to extract a precious resource in real-world echo of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.

China tests a Dune-like iron-harvesting crawler robot in the Taklamakan Desert(新聞配圖)
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Chinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and tested the device in the dunes of the vast Taklamakan D...