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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As a society, we can’t seem to get enough of robots that remind ...

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 ...

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 ...

For sea turtle hatchlings struggling to reach the ocean, success may depend on having flexible wrists that allow them to move without disturbing too much sand. A similar wrist also helps a robot known ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would you do if this creature swam up beside you? It’s a robot turtle created by students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich. Called the Naro-Tartaruga, it’s designed to have ...

It was a snapping turtle spotted on a camping trip that sparked the idea: A robotic reptile to monitor coral health and detect invasive species in marine ecosystems. “Its fluidic movement really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evan Budz, a Grade 10 student from Burlington, Ont., has developed an autonomous bionic sea turtle robot for ecological monitoring ...

Well, we shouldn’t be surprised. Scientists have created swimming robotic versions of the cow-nosed ray, the jellyfish, the sunfish, the tuna, and just the generic “fish,” so why not the sea turtle?