A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...

Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now ...

Researchers made a robot bat that demonstrates how real bats use echolocation to find prey at night, contributing to the fields of biology, engineering, and robotics.

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...

Why do researchers think big-eared bats can find hidden insects without having to scrutinize every leaf in a forest?Their ...

Popular Science highlighted a University of Cincinnati study that used engineering-inspired biology to examine how bats find ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves ...

A recent study led by the University of Bristol has solved a long-standing mystery, explaining how wild bats navigate in ...