Beatbot is best known for making pool-cleaning robots, but it was its swimming robot turtle that won our hearts at CES 2026.

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When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

At CES 2026, smart home pool cleaning robot company Beatbot has announced a new, self-cleaning pool robot system, called the ...

This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It’s the only robot that is able to travel in sand at a ...

Yale researchers share with the world its latest development in robotics, and it is with an amphibious turtle that can walk on land and swim on bodies of water to deliver on its requirements and ...

A Grade 10 student in Burlington, Ont., hopes his award-winning invention of a bionic turtle will help make underwater ecosystems safer and cleaner. Evan Budz develop the autonomous bionic sea turtle ...

Studying a robot that mimics the gait of a sea turtle on land could lead to new amphibious bots. The research may also shed light on the evolution of the flipper as a walking appendage. For sea turtle ...

A new highly maneuverable robot turtle has been designed to penetrate shipwrecks. The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly ...

A sea cage can hold up to 200000 farmed salmon. If the cage sustains damage, such as a hole in the nets, the fish could swim out through the opening and make their escape in short order. Clearly, the ...