Photos: Salamander robot travels by land and sea

A robot built to mimic a real-life salamander heads for the waters of Lake Geneva. The robot, dubbed Salamandra robotica by its creators at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, was designed to move like a salamander both on land and in the water.

The researchers say building the robot helped them understand vertebrate locomotion and how movement developed when animals moved from sea to land.

Photo by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne