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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...

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 ...

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.