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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

If you have SCUBA dived or snorkeled, you have probably been in the presence of the lumbering majesty of a sea turtle. And you probably thought it was great, because seriously, sea turtles? Amazing.

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 ...

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 ...

The sea is full of weird creatures – none more strange than these lifelike spy robots used to film the private lives of dolphins for TV. Each radio-controlled swimming model is fitted with HD cameras ...