{"id":158765,"date":"2026-10-14T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158765"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:00:11","slug":"chinas-dune-like-sand-crawler-could-turn-the-whole-taklamakan-desert-into-an-iron-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158765","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Dune-like sand crawler could turn the whole Taklamakan Desert into an iron mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and tested the device in the dunes of the vast Taklamakan Desert \u2013 an area the size of Germany \u2013 in northwestern China\u2019s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.<br \/>\nIn Frank Herbert\u2019s classic science fiction novel Dune, mobile factories traverse the sands of the fictional planet Arrakis to extract the drug melange, also known as \u201cspice\u201d. The real-world device similarly travels across the desert, extracting valuable&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3370824\/chinas-dune-sand-crawler-could-turn-whole-taklamakan-desert-iron-mine?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have built a self-propelled crawler robot that harvests iron from sand and tested the device in the dunes of the vast Taklamakan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}