Transformative new robot that can fly, sail, and swim autonomously

Bio-inspired robots are a dime a dozen these days, with machines mimicking everything from  bats and beetles to long-extinct sea creatures. But making the absolute most effective robot for certain niche scenarios like remote ocean monitoring during storms requires going one step beyond what nature offers. With this in mind, researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design recently engineered a kind of multi-formed chimera robot that can be dropped from high in the sky