Science Robat the robot mimics bats, using sound alone to navigate Robot + bat = a new bot that uses an echo-based sonar system to get around and map new surroundings.

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

The Bat-Bot, developed by IST project CIRCE, can also wriggle its ears, a technique often used by bats to modulate the characteristics of the echo. CIRCE developed the Bat-Bot to closely mimic the ...

The cheap, simple addition could help robots navigate and map hard-to-reach areas.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Holy drone, Batman! Mechanical masterminds have spawned the Bat Bot, a soaring, sweeping and diving robot that may eventually fly circles around other drones.

A drone can guide itself and map environments via echolocation using a simple buzzer and microphone set-up, much like how a bat uses sound to see in the dark. For robots to be able to move ...

It doesn’t fly, but this Bat-Bot has sonar and can distinguish one plant type from another. What’s more, the ears move around like a real bat’s. Which means that this research from the ...

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Holy drone, Batman! Mechanical masterminds have spawned the Bat Bot, a soaring, sweeping and diving robot that may eventually fly circles around other drones.