An MIT laboratory has engineered a $300 flapping robot that can fly and swim underwater. Its creator believes it could be ...

A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines bolted together. But researchers at MIT and EPFL built one that does both with ...

A new ultra-lightweight robot can swim underwater – before emerging to fly through the air like a bird. The flapping-wing aerial-aquatic vehicle (FAAV), created by researchers at EPFL in Switzerland ...

MIT and EPFL researchers built an 8.8-ounce robotic bird that flies, dives underwater and launches back into the air using ...

The bioinspired device, which weighs roughly half a pound and measures around three feet wide, was also modeled after aquatic birds like puffins, gulls and loons ...

Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge in water to swim after prey, and then leap back into the air to fly ...

Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back into the air. By K. R. Callaway With a flap of its wings, something ...

A lightweight robot modeled on diving birds can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying without using feet or propellers. The feat exposes a difficult mechanical compromise ...

Mechanical engineer Raphael Zufferey's lab at MIT contains a giant tank filled with bright turquoise water, an array of fans that can whip up a powerful wind, and small flying robots perched ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms. Researchers have developed a new kind of robot. It can't ...

Researchers say the $300 robot marks the first bird-scale machine to complete an air-to-water-to-air cycle using flapping wings alone. Watching a diving bird vanish beneath the water can feel almost ...