A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies
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She was impressed by the robot overall. "It is light and powerful and a monumental step in the performance at both swimming, flying, and transitioning between the two," she says.

Down the road, Zufferey is excited about using this kind of robot for a range of applications, including monitoring harmful algal blooms, fish stocks, and coastal erosion. He plans to equip the device with a handful of onboard sensors to enable such data gathering.

In addition, Zufferey and his team are continuing to refine and improve their aerial-aquatic robots — honed by experimentation but still inspired by the natural world. "You see that it has already been done in biology," he says.

"So that gives you hope as a robotics researcher. It tells you that it should be possible."

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