IIT Jodhpur Develop 3D-Printed Hybrid UAV Prototype For Land, Air & Water

Defense News , India :-  Indian scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur have created a special kind of robot that can do amazing things. They showed off a model of this robot, which can work on land, in the air, and even underwater!

The robot they made was inspired by a bird called Anhingas. These birds are cool because they can move around on land and swim underwater. The scientists hope their robot can help with important jobs like saving people in emergencies or finding things like oil spills or pollution in the water.

Professor Jayant Kumar Mohanta, who helps teach at IIT Jodhpur, said, "Our robot can do many things. It can fly in the air, move like a ship on water, and also swim underwater. It can fly for 15 minutes and stay underwater for 8 hours. Right now, only a few countries like the US and China have this kind of technology. We wanted to make something like this ourselves."

The robot they made has four rotors, like a helicopter. The top part helps it fly in the air, while the bottom part has special propellers to help it move underwater.

This robot can do six different things: it can dive from the air into the water, fly up from underwater into the air, land on the water, dive from the water's surface into the water, come up from underwater to the surface, and take off again from the water.

The scientists showed off their robot at a big conference called AIR ’23, where they talked about new robots and technologies.