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 ...

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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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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The armada of swimming robots is set to grow this month when a sea turtle-inspired contraption takes its first dip in the water. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...