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Limacina helicina, a species of tiny sea snails found in the chilly waters near the North and South Pole, are often called "sea butterflies" for the way they beat their wing-like appendages to glide through the water...

Engineers have already managed to build robots that glide, run, and buzz. Now two professors from the University of Maryland Robotics Center have created a robot that is able to fly by flapping its wings independently of...