A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead ...
ZME Science

This 250-Gram Robot Can Swim Underwater Then Fly into the Sky Using Its Flapping Wings Like a Diving Bird

The bird-fish hybrid could one day be used to study aquatic animals underwater and then fly back to the base with data.
Tech Xplore

Birdlike robot swims underwater, then flaps into flight without paddling

Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can ...
Interesting Engineering

Puffin bird-inspired robot flaps its wings to travel through both air and water

Inspired by nature, engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a new “flapping-wing aerial-aquatic ...
The New York Times

What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash

Investigators and experts are uncertain why Lion Air Flight 610 plummeted into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 people on board. But they are focusing on an automatic system designed to keep ...