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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Beatbot is best known for making pool-cleaning robots, but it was its swimming robot turtle that won our hearts at CES 2026. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Beatbot makes robotic pool cleaners. In fact, the company is showing off a new one with a docking station this week at CES 2025. What really caught our eye on the show floor, however, is RoboTurtle, ...

Pets don’t only help teach kids how to be responsible, they’re also a harsh object lesson in the definitiveness of death—unless you go the robot route. Robo-puppies might not be believable just yet, ...