A flapping-wing robot that can both swim underwater and fly through the air is helping scientists rethink how diving birds manage life in two radically different worlds. “In addition to shedding light ...

Experts spend years trying to build robotic systems that can both fly and dive. Puffins do it without a second thought. Inspired by nature, engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists built a flapping wing robot that can swim underwater, fly through the air and launch itself out of water to study how ...

Flapping-wing robo-bird uses two tails to fly fast or slow Many readers will remember the MetaFly, a remote-control robotic insect that flies by actually flapping its wings. Well, its inventor is back ...

Bio-inspired wind sensing using strain sensors on flexible wings could revolutionize robotic flight control strategy. Researchers have developed a method to detect wind direction with 99% accuracy ...

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 ...

What a difference a hip replacement can make! Not only for humans but also for this ornithopter, a flapping-wing robot that is work-in-progress at the University of Seville's GRVC Robotics Lab. This ...