Each robot overall costs around $70 and features a curved leading edge and curved flippers, just like a turtle, along with learning algorithms to help it scuttle across the sand.

And while the robot isn’t fast, (after all, it is a turtle robot) it is three times more efficient than a bipedal robot developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and performed ...

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Now, researchers are welcoming yet another bio-inspired robot to join the menagerie: a ‘bot built to emulate the movements of baby sea turtles.

In order to study their movements more closely without bringing baby sea turtles into the lab, one of Goldman’s students built FlipperBot, a robot model of a baby sea turtle that has the ability ...