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Birdlike robot swims underwater, then flaps into flight without paddling - Tech Xplore
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Engineers have developed a birdlike robot capable of both swimming underwater and transitioning into flight. This dual-mode capability mimics the natural behavior of diving birds like puffins and gulls.
Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge into water to swim after prey, and leap back into the air to fly away.…
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