Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now ...
Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...
A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...
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A robot is unraveling the secrets of how some bats bounce sound waves off leaves to find insect prey
Common big-eared bats are remarkable hunters. In 2019, bat ecologist Inga Geipel and her colleagues reported that the roughly two-inch-long creatures seem to use leaves like “acoustic mirrors” to ...
Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...
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