
Inspired by Puffins: MIT and EPFL Jointly Develop Air-Water Amphibious Flapping-Wing Drone
Engineers from MIT and EPFL have developed a sub-300-gram Flapping-wing Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle (FAAV) inspired by the Atlantic puffin. The robot uses flexible, nanoparticle-coated wings beating at 5 Hz to travel at 1 m/s underwater and 6 m/s in the air. It successfully transitioned from water to flight during field tests on Lake Geneva. The research was published in Science on July 9.
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