Recently, we've seen a robotic ostrich. Now, there’s a robot bat – or at least, part of one. Joseph Bahlman, a graduate student at Brown University, with the help of Professors Kenneth Breuer and ...

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Robotic bat wings could aid in the design of novel flapping aircraft, researchers say. Scientists built a robot that mimics the wing shape and motions of the lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus ...

An international team of scientists, including groups from UC San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes, and the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, have for the first time identified genes and ...

An array of touch sensors on bat wings may have helped these little insect eaters become the agile masters of the night sky that they are. According to findings published in Cell Reports this week, ...

Animal-inspired technology has become very popular. Researchers use fireflies to create better LEDs, incorporate honey bee brains into robots, and create muscles that can camouflage like squid. Now, ...

Networks of collagen fibers in a bat’s wings could be as reliable and unique as a human fingerprint, offering scientists a non-invasive way of identifying and tracking bats. U.S. Forest Service Bat ...