When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

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This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It’s the only robot that is able to travel in sand at a ...

A robot can move on land and through water thanks to morphable limbs inspired by tortoises and sea turtles. The Amphibious Robotic Turtle (ART), made by Robert Baines at Yale University and his ...

Yale researchers share with the world its latest development in robotics, and it is with an amphibious turtle that can walk on land and swim on bodies of water to deliver on its requirements and ...

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Studying a robot that mimics the gait of a sea turtle on land could lead to new amphibious bots. The research may also shed light on the evolution of the flipper as a walking appendage. For sea turtle ...

In early October we took a look at the naro - tartaruga, a biomimetic robot based on sea turtles being built by researchers at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). It's a research ...

Evan Budz says invention detects replicated coral bleaching with 96% accuracy, Calgary student 2nd. A Grade 10 student in Burlington, Ont., hopes his award-winning invention of a bionic turtle will ...

The robotic reptile is the latest in a menagerie of mechanical creatures designed to use the best of animal design to help people (without having to spend months house training). What would you do if ...