First bird-scale robot to swim, dive, and launch back into flight
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MIT and EPFL researchers built a 250-gram robot that swims, dives, and launches back into flight using only flapping wings—the first bird-scale machine to complete that entire cycle—using flexible wings and controlled flapping speed to handle the 800-fold density difference between water and air.
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