Introducing Flip: The World's First Scientifically-Accurate Plesiosaur Robot

Amazing Luke! ❤🎉

So you need: • sufficient servomotors to provide three-axis movement to the base joint of each flipper. Ideally, each servomotor would also provide force sensors and some form of positioning feedback. Perhaps some kind of water-tight ball joint with three orthogonally-positioned drive motors, like some robots that can balance on top of balls. • a flipper endoskeleton with a controllably-deformable structure (if plesiosaurs were able to flex their phalanges via musculature) • a wateroroof flipper integument that is analogous to flesh, ideally with pressure sensors across its surface so that the robot can sense the waterflow around the flipper

very neat

Wonderful work indeed, as it actually shows the greatness of God's intelligent design. Hope you get enough funds to create a fully flexible robot that can move its head, neck, trunk and tail as well, possibly with artificial muscles. Maybe you eventually succeed in building an air-breathing machine that flexes its neck and head to lift them above water so as to breathe in air periodically. And, of course, to construct a life-sized robot, say, the size of a van, and place it in some lake for trials to surprise the unsuspecting bystanders.