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Engineering study demonstrates seamless aerial-to-aquatic transitions via autorotation and sailing in a bioinspired robot, suggesting multimodal mechanisms can surpass natural locomotor capabilities.
An air-dropped robot autorotates to the water and sails off, assembling bioinspired parts into a feat nature has not achieved.
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