The patience and precision involved with drawing geometric patterns in sand is right up a robot’s alley, and demonstrating this is [rob dobson]’s SandBot, a robot that draws patterns thanks to an arm ...

"It had a big moment in the 1970s, when its bold color shifts and graphic energy fit right in with the era’s maximalism and I ...

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...