A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...
Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now ...
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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 ...
Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...
Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...
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