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SAWbot Amphibious Robot Swims And Crawls Efficiently This Amphibious Robot Swims Like an Eel and Crawls Over Gravel, All From a Single Motor

Robots that work both in water and on land usually carry two propulsion systems, such as propellers for swimming and wheels or legs for land, and pay for it in weight, power and complexity. SAWbot, built by researchers at the Bio-Inspired and Medical Robotics Lab (Zarrouk Lab) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, swims with a continuous travelling wave along a flexible fin, the way an eel…