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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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?

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 ...

A new highly maneuverable robot turtle has been designed to penetrate shipwrecks. The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly ...

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, ...