San Francisco artist Andres Amador makes monumental designs on the beach with naught but a rake and some wet sand. He’s mindblowingly good at sand art—but he’s got competition. A small, orange Disney ...

A lot of effort, and heavy machinery, goes into making Santa Barbara’s beaches look spiffy. City residents sometimes question the tractors they see removing kelp and debris from city shores. But this ...

Robots are evolving rapidly — and now, they've finally drawn a line in the sand. Literally. The Beachbot is a turtle-shaped robot that uses a retractable rake and a bevy of onboard sensors to draw ...

No, it’s not alien art. A robotic beach artist has created giant drawings in the sand. Developed by Paul Beardsley from Disney Research Zurich and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...