Beatbot is best known for making pool-cleaning robots, but it was its swimming robot turtle that won our hearts at CES 2026.

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When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It’s the only robot that is able to travel in sand at a ...

Yale researchers share with the world its latest development in robotics, and it is with an amphibious turtle that can walk on land and swim on bodies of water to deliver on its requirements and ...

A Grade 10 student in Burlington, Ont., hopes his award-winning invention of a bionic turtle will help make underwater ecosystems safer and cleaner. Evan Budz develop the autonomous bionic sea turtle ...

Studying a robot that mimics the gait of a sea turtle on land could lead to new amphibious bots. The research may also shed light on the evolution of the flipper as a walking appendage. For sea turtle ...

If you have SCUBA dived or snorkeled, you have probably been in the presence of the lumbering majesty of a sea turtle. And you probably thought it was great, because seriously, sea turtles? Amazing.

A new highly maneuverable robot turtle has been designed to penetrate shipwrecks. The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly ...