A gooney bird lightweight flyer, composed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Credit: Gabriel Bousquet; Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives permit MIT engineers have outlined an automated lightweight flyer that can skim along the water's surface, riding the breeze like a gooney bird while at the same time additionally surfing the waves like a sailboat. In districts of high breeze, the robot is intended to stay on high, much like its avian partner. Where there are more settled breezes, the robot can plunge a bottom into the water to ride like an exceedingly productive sailboat. The automated framework, which gets from both nautical and organic outlines, can cover a given separation utilizing 33% as much breeze as a gooney bird and voyaging 10 times speedier than a normal sailboat. The lightweight plane is additionally generally lightweight, weighing around 6 pounds. The scientists trust that sooner rather than la...