Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back ...

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

A lightweight robot modeled on diving birds can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying without using ...

A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines ...

A new ultra-lightweight robot can swim underwater – before emerging to fly through the air like a bird. The flapping-wing ...

Flapping-wing robots that mimic the flight mechanics of birds and insects are closing the control gap with conventional quadrotor drones, according to a cluster of recent peer-reviewed studies.

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

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

Researchers at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have now developed a bio-inspired robotic bird capable of flying ...

An unusual conservation effort is taking flight once again in Wyoming with handcrafted robo-birds. According to Popular Science, Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park recently deployed robotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greater Sage Grouse male, one of the endangered/threatened bird species in the US,performing mating display on lek (breeding ...