It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?

October 20, 2026 · 9:00 pm 1 sources

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• It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?
  MIT Technology Review · October 20, 2026 21:00
  Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can plunge into the sea, swim underwater, and leap back into the air to fly away. And now engineers at MIT and EPFL in…