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

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

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

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.

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

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

Bats are often described as unusually powerful for their size, but their advantages come with significant trade-offs. This video compares bats to birds, rodents, and other mammals by examining flight ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...

(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes alive with their flapping wings, filling the air like a living liquid. It's a ...

Bat vocal communication encompasses a diverse array of acoustic signals ranging from echolocation pulses that facilitate spatial mapping to complex social calls used in foraging, mating, and ...