Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...
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Robot bat reveals how big-eared bats find insects in darkness using sound echoes
Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects ...
[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat’s echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector. The simple bat detector uses ...
A Robot Is Unraveling the Secrets of How Some Bats Bounce Sound Waves Off Leaves to Find Insect Prey
A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...
Dec. 24, 2025 The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across ...
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