Tübingen, Germany – Current flying objects face a trade-off: Drones with propellers for instance are very agile and able to hover, however they use up a lot of energy. Airplanes on the other hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 leap back into the air to fly away.

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 ...

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 ...

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected trade-off in the wings of the European nightjar, a bird that migrates thousands of ...

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 leap back into the air to fly away.