Bionic amphibious robots are receiving attention and significant interest from the civil and
military sectors since they can move on land and swim underwater. When developing a …

Amphibious robots are becoming increasingly important for civilian, scientific, and
environmental missions. They are widely used in disaster rescue, ecosystem monitoring …

Matching the rich multimodality of natural organisms, ie, the ability to transition between
crawling and swimming, walking and jumping, etc., represents a grand challenge in the …

Shape-morphing robots can change their morphology to fulfill different tasks in varying
environments, but existing shape-morphing capability is not embedded in a robot's body …

Amphibious robots can undertake various tasks in terrestrial and aquatic environments for
their superior environmental compatibility. However, the existing amphibious robots usually …

It is a huge challenge for an amphibious robot with a high locomotory performance to
locomote in amphibious environments, including crawling on rough terrains, maneuvering …

Amphibious robots have attracted more and more attention from researchers for their broad
applications, while it also brings great challenges in designing appropriate propulsion …

In the past two decades, unmanned amphibious robots have proven the most promising and
efficient systems ranging from scientific, military, and commercial applications. The …

Thrusters are the bottom actuators of the amphibious spherical robot, and play an important
role in the motion control of these robots. To realize accurate motion control, a thrust model …

We describe the novel, multiply gaited, vectored water-jet, hybrid locomotion-capable,
amphibious spherical robot III (termed ASR-III) featuring a wheel-legged, water-jet …