Transforming turtle robot can walk on land and swim through water

A morphable limb plan allows this robot to flip betwixt a oversea turtle-like limb for swimming successful h2o to a tortoise’s benignant for question connected land

Technology 12 October 2022

By Matthew Sparkes

The turtle tin alteration its limbs

Courtesy of the laboratory of Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

A robot tin determination connected onshore and done h2o acknowledgment to morphable limbs inspired by tortoises and oversea turtles.

The Amphibious Robotic Turtle (ART), made by Robert Baines astatine Yale University and his colleagues, tin accommodate the signifier of its limbs and its gait. On land, the legs mimic those of a tortoise to assistance it crawl, but successful h2o they person into level flippers to swim.

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